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Specialised training courses on certain aspects of food safety risk assessment for members of EFSA's Scientific Committee/panels and their working groups, open to EFSA staff.

Objective

Overall objectives:
1. To enable the understanding and practical implementation of best risk assessment practices amongst members of EFSA's Scientific Committee/panels, their working groups and EFSA staff, in particular on horizontal aspects of the risk assessment workflow such as: (i) environmental risk assessment (ii) variability and uncertainty in risk assessment(iii) benchmark dose approach(iv) computational toxicology modelling tools in food and feed safety risk assessment
2. To strengthen the dissemination of risk assessment guidance and modelling practises and to ensure the uptake of guidance on cross-cutting risk assessment approaches already developed by EFSA amongst members of EFSA's Scientific Committee/panels, their working groups and EFSA staff.
Specific objectives:
1. To provide EFSA with a number of specialised training courses on (i) environmental risk assessment (ii) variability and uncertainty in risk assessment (iii) benchmark dose approach(iv) computational toxicology modelling tools in food and feed safety risk assessment over a period of 3 years.

Institution
University of Sheffield
FERA - Food and Environment Research Agency
Wageningen Environmental Research (Alterra)
Start date
2014
End date
2014
Project number
OC/EFSA/SCER/2014/02