RISK
ASSESSMENT (FOOD):
URGENT
We need teachers / specialists / trainers for 4 days
seminars in Latin America. (International Organization)
Languages:
English or Portuguese.
Send
"curriculum vitae" to: cristinavidreras@yahoo.es
Subjects:
- Risk
assessment
- The
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
- How
the risk assessment work contributes to improving food safety and to building
public confidence in the way risk is assessed.
- Risk
assessment as a specialised field of applied science that involves reviewing
scientific data and studies in order to evaluate risks associated with certain
hazards.
-Some
examples of the wide variety of risk issues: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
(BSE) and Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE), the safety of food
additives such as aspartame, allergenic food ingredients, genetically modified
organisms (GMOs), wild and farmed fish, pesticides, and animal health issues
including Avian Influenza.
- The
need of sound scientific work particularly in fields such as emerging risks
where scientific knowledge and approaches are continually evolving.
- Harmonization
of risk assessment methodologies (i.e. the development of a harmonised approach
to compare the risks posed by substances with the potential to cause cancer,
and provided advice on the biosafety of antibiotic resistant marker genes).
- Collecting
and analysing scientific data to ensure that risk assessment is supported by
the most complete scientific information available (launching public
consultations and calls for data to gather information from external sources,
etc.).
- Risk analysis
- Risk management
- Risk
communication: communicating on risks associated with the food chain is a key
element of the whole system.
- Scientific
results cannot always be easily converted into simple guidelines and advice
that non-scientists like the public or the media can easily understand or
follow: Analysing public perception of risks linked to food; etc.
- Precautionary
principle
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