Food Safety Policy, Science, and Risk Assessment Strengthening the Connection: Workshop Proceedings (2001) / Chapter Skim
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Using Science-Based Risk Assessment to Develop Food Safety Policy
Using Science-Based Risk Assessment to Develop Food Safety Policy
Pages 25-32
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It is not a formula, but an analytical framework that defines the types of data and methodologies that are to be used to analyze a risk, and explains why, and also details the uncertainties and problems associated with particular assessments. The results of the risk assessment process are then the basis for risk management process, the process by which solutions for controlling risks are obtained.
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This report, for the first time ever, clearly elucidated a framework for both the risk assessment and risk management processes. An updated version of the report was published by the Academy in 1994 that further promoted the rise of explicit regulatory guidelines for risk assessments to ensure that risk assessments would not be manipulated, on a case-by-case basis, to achieve predetermined regulatory outcomes.
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L) esp~te some weaknesses in these methodologies, both risk assessment and risk management will continue to be valuable analytical techniques for organizing data on hazardous agents in order to make practical decisions.
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Anyone should be able to recreate a risk assessment based upon the documentation of the study. As risk managers, scientists, and risk assessors begin to address these pitfalls, risk assessment will become a more useii~1 and effective tool for food safety.
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As a preface to the steps taken by the Salmonella er~teriditis risk assessment team, it is important that several unique characteristics of the microbial risk assessment process be highlighted. Unlike a chemical risk assessment, a microbial risk assessment deals with a single cell or one unit of infection and the primary interest is in finding and/or developing appropriate mitigations to minimize risk rather than setting exposure limits or ranges.
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First, it is important to highlight and further elucidate the complex construct associated with risks. The risk assessment process involves both variability and uncertainty and risk characteristics are both objective and subjective, the nature of which is often reflected in the public's response.
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Risk communicators must be also transparent and open about the risk assessment and risk management decision-making process and explore opportunities to make risks less involuntary, to create a climate of trust, and to allow a better exchange of information with stakeholders. Risk managers must translate scientific findings into understandable terms that can be both given to the media and appropriately communicated to the public.
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One of the things that risk assessment does if it becomes the national and international instrument, is that it will identify risk managers and will train them on how to deal with risk assessments. The interface between risk assessors and risk managers will be the most difficult part of the process.
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