EFSA director: ‘We are not there to please everybody’

Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle recently started her second five-year mandate as executive director of the European Food Safety Authority, better known as EFSA. Her main concern for the coming years is to maintain and improve the scientific expertise of EFSA in an environment of continuous pressure on feed and food safety budgets in member states. Somewhat hidden away in Parma, Italy and outside the focal point of the international press the European Food Safety Authority, established in 2002, is