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Critical review of methodology and application of risk ranking for prioritisation of food and feed related issues, on the basis of the size of anticipated health impact.

Objective

"The overall objective of the contract resulting from the present procurement procedure is to critically review suitable methodologies, tools and appropriate proposals for ranking risks for diet and health, food and feed in accordance with the ToR, in support of the implementation of a structured and transparent framework for the prioritisation of requests for scientific work of EFSA.
The final report will contain 3 main elements:
1. an extensive literature search
2. clustering of approaches
3. analysis of what may be adaptable for EFSA's needs, including a feasibility study for some common hazards."

Institution
RIKILT Institute of Food Safety
FERA - Food and Environment Research Agency
National Food Institute (Technical University Denmark)
Start date
2013
End date
2013
Project number
OC/EFSA/SCOM/2013/01