http://agriculture.gouv.fr/sections/presse5022/communiques/creation-nouvelle-agence
07-Jul-2010 (15 years 11 months 2 days ago)On July 1 the French National Agency on Food Safety, Environment, and Workplace Security (ANSES, by it’s French acronym) was established, as a result of the merging of the Food Safety Security Agency (AFFSA) and the Agency for Workplace and Environmental Safety. (AFSSET).
The main mission of ANSES is to provide independent, multidisciplinary scientific consulting to authorities, such as the scientific and technological support needed to develop health protection politics, including the application of risk management measures in their fields.
(Original in French. Read Google translation
here).