European Food Safety Authority
EFSA scientific opinions on water-related substances
Scientific risk assessments underpinning European limits, including the tolerable weekly intake for PFAS, opinions on nitrate and nitrite, and dietary reference values for water intake.
Rights
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial reuse
- Yes
- Redistribution
- Yes
- Derivative use
- Yes
- Attribution required
- YesData from European Food Safety Authority, used under CC BY 4.0.
- Terms last checked
- 23 August 2026
Access and coverage
- Publisher
- European Food Safety Authority
- Website
- https://www.efsa.europa.eu/
- Geographic coverage
- European Union
- Update frequency
- irregular
- Formats
- pdf, html
- Bulk download
- Available
- Registration required
- No
- Cost to Hydrionis
- Free
- Domains
- contaminant, quality
Notes
EFSA established a group tolerable weekly intake for four PFAS in 2020 that is substantially lower than earlier values, which is why PFAS limits tightened across Europe afterwards.