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BfR | Annual Report 2015 30
The BfR Academy conducts a large number of events every year on various topics from the BfR's range of
tasks. The goal of these events is to promote an exchange with various target groups and to inform about the
BfR's assessments and research results. Approximately 180 internal and external events were staged in 2015,
the majority of them serving the purpose of scientific dialogue followed by information events. Several further
training events were also organised.
Selected events in 2015
BfR at International
Green Week in Berlin
The BfR presented itself at Green Week under the head-
ing “Safe foods from the farm to the fork”. BfR experts
provided information on plant diseases and how they can
endanger human health. The benefits and possible health
risks of plant protection products were also presented.
On the one hand, they protect the health of plants and
thereby that of consumers too but on the other, they can
have damaging effects if not used in the proper manner.
For this reason, information was also given on maximum
residue levels of plant protection products in foods and
how to control them.
16 –25 January 2015 3–4 March 2015
1 st BfR Academy Training School on
Nanotechnologies for Risk Assessors
The first BfR Academy Training School on the subject of
nanotechnology took place at the beginning of March.
Together with experts in the risk assessment and regula-
tion of nanomaterials, the current status of research was
established on topics such as characterisation and the
toxicity testing of nanomaterials.
On a stroll along the educational trail at the BfR stand,
visitors had the opportunity to walk through a wheat field
to have a look at wheat plants that had been cultivated
in different ways, some of which had also been infected
with plant diseases such as ergot.
Methodical limitations and future challenges were
discussed in presentations during the training school
on nanotechnologies.
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