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BfR | German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment @bfren Nov 5

The 15th BfR-Summer Academy from experts to experts will focus on food safety and appropriate risk assessment. It will be open to participants from public institutes engaged in risk assessment of food.

📌 Apply now until 31 January 2027! ➡️ bfr-akademie.de/english/events…

15th BfR Summer Academy from 7 to 18 June 2027.

BfR | German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment @bfren Oct 26

Science in eight languages: BfR science comic offers an entertaining introduction to current research topics

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The comic characters are shown, accompanied by the phrase "What does science say?" in various other languages.

BfR | German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment @bfren Oct 26

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How soluble are tattoo pigments? The BfR has developed a new method that, for the first time, allows the solubility of tattoo pigments in the body to be assessed. The new method may help to assess tattoo pigments more systematically and identify problematic pigments.

BfR | German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment @bfren Oct 26

At the international PFAS conference, attended by around 200 experts and scientists from 18 countries, key challenges and future prospects for the health risk assessment of PFAS were discussed.

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International PFAS conference. To highlight the latest advances in research on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and to identify priority steps for risk assessment in consumer protection, the BfR organised an international PFAS conference in Berlin in October 2025. The findings from the meeting and the recommendations derived from them have now been published in the scientific journal “Archives of Toxicology”.

BfR | German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment @bfren Oct 26

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Study: Early childhood intake of dioxins/PFAS and semen quality in young men. The result: no link could be established between early intake of PFAS and semen quality later in life. Whilst a negative trend was observed for dioxins, this could not be statistically confirmed.