Practical Approaches to Risk Assessment
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Key words:
- risk assessment /
- World Trade Organization /
- practical application /
- risk communication /
- food inspection /
- risk analysis /
- principles of /
- food supply /
- raw milk
Abstract: The importance of using risk assessment in developing foodregulations is growing with the globalization of our food supply. The World Trade Organization has entrenched the principles of science-based risk assessment in the Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures. The relevant international organization for food standards, the Codex Alimentarius Commission, recognises risk analysis, and its component parts risk assessment, risk management and risk communication, as the basis for scientific decision-making. Risk assessment comprises two activities: hazard evaluation; and exposure estimation. A hazard may be chemical, microbiological or nutritional in origin. The practical application of risk assessment in Australia is illustrated in this presentation by four examples involving: (1) food additives, (2) microbiological safety of imported raw milk cheeses, (3) genetically modified foods and (4) imported food inspection.
Citation: | SIMON BROOKE-TAYLOR. Practical Approaches to Risk Assessment[J]. Biomedical and Environmental Sciences, 2001, 14(1_2): 14-20. |