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Foreword
In the evaluation report of the Scientific Council published on 19 Octo-
ber 2015 it is stated, “The BfR has great scientific expertise, provides
important consultancy services and makes a significant contribution
to consumer health care”. The evaluation group, which is currently ac-
quiring insight into all of the departmental research institutions within
the portfolio of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL),
visited the BfR at all three of its locations on 7 and 8 May. In the course
of the visit they talked to staff members, cooperation partners from
Germany and abroad, including our scientific advisory board, stake-
holders and representatives of the supervisory boards of leading
BMEL departments and BfR committees.
The members of the Scientific Council evaluation board rated the BfR
staff as very competent and committed. We agree with this assess-
ment report because competence and commitment are very high
standards in our institute. We would like to express our thanks to every
single staff member for their work in achieving these goals. A further
fundamental prerequisite which enables us to weather the occasional
storm is internal cohesion, because the BfR is always perceived as a
single entity from the outside. This perception is set to remain just as
positive in the future too, as the Scientific Council has certified. Good
reasons for this are offered by the numerous examples of the work of
the BfR which you will find on the following pages. We wish you stimu-
lating reading!
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Science, independence and transparency are
the three pillars of risk assessment at
the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment.
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BfR website:
www.bfr.bund.de/enProf. Dr. Reiner Wittkowski,
Vice-President
Prof. Dr. Dr. Andreas Hensel,
President