Outcome of the public consultation on the draft statement on genotoxicity assessment of chemical mixtures.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) carried out a public consultation to receive input from the scientific community and all interested parties on the genotoxicity assessment of chemical mixtures. The draft statement was prepared by a dedicated working group of the Scientific Committee and endorsed by the Scientific Committee for public consultation at its 89th plenary meeting of 28‐29 May 2018. The public consultation for this document was open from 26 June until 9 September 2018. EFSA received 73 comments from 16 interested parties. EFSA's Scientific Committee wishes to thank all stakeholders for their contributions. This report presents statistics on the comments received and provides a summarised description of how the comments were addressed in the finalisation of the document. The stakeholders valuable and detailed comments were taken into account by the Scientific Committee to prepare an updated version of the statement on genotoxicity assessment of mixtures. The statement was discussed and adopted at the Scientific Committee plenary meeting on 22 November 2018, and is published in the EFSA Journal. This publication is linked to the following EFSA Journal article: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2903/j.efsa.2019.5519/full [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]