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The European Food Safety Authority (Efsa) has taken on board public comments and made significant changes to its protocol for the next re-evaluation of BPA. The protocol sets out the rules for selecting studies for a fresh hazard assessment of the substance. This will decide whether scientific evidence published since 2012 supports a temporary tolerable daily intake (TDI) of 4 micrograms/kg body weight/day.

"Compared to where we were in 2013, the change in methods is quite remarkable. Efsa, and particularly the methods group within Efsa, has been putting in a lot of work and made great strides," said Mr Whaley. "To be reading a protocol for a systematic-review based hazard assessment, which has been published prior to conduct of the assessment, is pretty amazing and almost unprecedented"