FOOD RISK ANALYSIS

Food Standards Australia New Zealand – Risk Analysis in Food Regulation

Risk analysis applied to food fortification.

OBJECTIVE To describe how a risk analysis can be applied to food fortification, with emphasis on voluntary fortification and intake levels that might exceed usual dietary levels. DESIGN Use of the risk analysis model as a frame to classify nutrients according to the risk of exceeding upper safe intake levels. Furthermore, to apply the model when discussing possible consequences of liberal for...

Food Safety Risk Analysis: A Global Issue

In the past, control of human health hazards in fresh food of animal origin has generally depended on traditional principles of hygiene, with few attempts to draw quantitative associations between hygiene activities and their outcomes in terms of human health. However, “modernization” of food hygiene programs for fresh foods of animal origin is now a commercial and regulatory goal in a number o...

Ontology Building: an Application in Food Risk Analysis

This paper presents the methodological steps we followed to build an ontology in the food risk analysis domain. In the first, or preparation phase, we defined the domain and scope. In the second or building phase, first, an ontology was created using a representative subset of food risk assessment reports. Then, the ontology was refined taking into account the entire set of 74 reports. Finally,...

Pesticide Residues in Food and Cancer Risk: A Critical Analysis

Possible cancer hazards from pesticide residues in food have been much discussed and hotly debated in the scientific literature, the popular press, the political arena, and the courts. Consumer opinion surveys indicate that much of the U.S. public believes that pesticide residues in food are a serious cancer hazard (Opinion Research Corporation, 1990). In contrast, epidemiologic studies indicat...