Directorates The directorate-general is made up of eight directorates (as of October 2022): • Directorate A: One Health • Directorate B: Public Health, Cancer and Health Security • Directorate C: Digital, EU4Health and Health Systems Modernisation • Directorate D: Medical Products and Innovation • Directorate E: Food Safety, Sustainability and Innovation • Directorate F: Health and Food Audits and Analysis • Directorate G: Crisis Preparedness in Food, Animals and Plants • Directorate R: Policy and Administrative Support Directorates A, C, D, E, G and R are based in
Brussels, Directorate B is based in
Luxembourg, and Directorate F in Grange, County Meath, Ireland. While Directorates B, C and D belong to the health pillar and E, F and G to the food safety pillar, A and R are horizontal Directorates working across both pillars.
Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed is the EC's food safety rapid alert system.
Scientific committees DG SANTE manages two independent scientific committees: • the
Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (SCCS) • the Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks (SHEER) These scientific committees provide the
European Commission with the scientific advice on non-food products that it needs when preparing policy and proposals relating to consumer safety, public health and the environment. The committees also draw the commission's attention to new or emerging problems which may pose an actual or potential threat.
Agencies DG SANTE is linked to one executive agency, the Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA), as well as several decentralised
agencies of the European Union such as the
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), which the
European Commission consults for questions concerning the safety of food products, the
Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO), which administers a system of
plant variety rights, and the
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), which helps the
European Union combat communicable diseases and other serious health threats. ==See also==