EFFL 4|2007 Scientific Conflict, the EFSA and a Common Risk Assessment 197 I. Introduction In establishing the European Food Safety Authority, much was made of the fact that the EU wanted to reform its method of risk assessment in order that it might obtain the best independent scientific advice to justify its new legislative proposals and new authorisations of additives, GMOs etc. It is now opportune with the pending fifth anniversary of the EFSA’s e