Member States shall take the necessary measures to enable their competent authorities and bodies to cooperate with the Commission and lend it the assistance it needs in the scientific examination of questions of public interest relating to food, particularly in the field of public health, through disciplines such as those associated with medicine, nutrition, toxicology, biology, hygiene, food technology, biotechnology, novel foods and processes, risk assessment techniques, physics and chemistry.
Države članice sprejmejo ukrepe, potrebne zato, da organom in telesom omogočijo sodelovanje s Komisijo in zagotavljanje pomoči, ki jo potrebuje pri znanstvenem proučevanju vprašanj javnega interesa v zvezi z živili, zlasti na področju javnega zdravja, s pomočjo ved, povezanih z medicino, prehranjevanjem, toksikologijo, biologijo, higieno, živilsko tehnologijo, biotehnologijo, novimi živilskimi izdelki in postopki, tehniko ocenjevanja tveganja, fiziko in kemijo.