Food Safety Policy, Science, and Risk Assessment Strengthening the Connection: Workshop Proceedings (2001) / Chapter Skim
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Science as the Basis for Food Safety Policy
Science as the Basis for Food Safety Policy
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Yet each year in our country millions of people become ill and thousands die due to food-borne illness. Recent trends in food consumption are a major reason that ensuring a safer food supply has become more challenging as Americans both choose a greater variety of foods from a continually expanding global supply and consume an increasing amount of foods prepared outside the home.
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For example, FDA recently completed a consumer study to identify food safety practices that consumers are employing and where trends exist. These types of impacts are the reason risk assessment is leading the Department's food safety regulations in creating solutions and the reason the DHHS and its Public Health Service (PHS)
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Due to the requirement that EPA's decisions be based only on public health risk and not economics, the agency's activities are heavily based on risk assessment. In 1993, President Clinton signed an Executive Order mandating that for regulations having an annual economic impact of at least $100 million (1994 dollars)
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The first two categories often allow time for decisions that are based on multi-step, quantitative assessments, involving gathering and evaluating of scientific and economic data relevant to an issue; then presenting the data in an understandable form, crafting different approaches to solve the problem, soliciting public input, and making the regulator choice. In contrast, rapid decisions are frequently needed in the latter two categories leaving little or no time to conduct a formal risk assessment.
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· Development of a policy and budget committee to ensure connections with pertinent food safety agencies across the Federal Government. in addition to developing a strategic plan to coordinate research agendas, the interagency group was also tasked with gathering and assessing an inventory of federal food safety research, in particular research fended or conducted by the USDA, the DHHS, or the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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