The Danish Centre for Environment and Energy (DCE), Aarhus University (AU), provides research-based consultancy and solutions to the Ministry of the Environment, the Danish Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities, and others. The DCE cooperates with the DCA to fulfil tasks, i.e. for the MFAF in areas in which their different kinds of expertise are supplementary.

The work of the DCE includes areas in which environmental considerations are of major importance for the assessment of food, feed and their production, such as:

• Contaminants in the food chain
• GMOs (e.g. environmental risk assessments, plant invasion studies and microbial diversity)
• Plant protection products and their residues (e.g. ecotoxicology, exposure scenarios, models and ecosystems)
• Plant health (e.g. pest risk assessments).

The DCE is involved in the development of guidelines for risk assessment and has expertise in antibiotics, growth regulators, and wildlife with regard to the dispersal of emerging diseases.