Safe Foods Project 6: Integrated Risk Analysis Approach for Foods

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Safe Foods Project 6Integrated Risk Analysis
Approach for Foods
Kick-off meeting SAFE FOODS 17-18 May 2004 WICC,
Wageningen, The Netherlands
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SAFE FOODS
Early Detection of Emerging Risk Associated with
Food and Feed Production
Comparative Safety Evaluation of Breeding
Approaches and Production Practices Deploying
High - and Low- Input Systems
Quantitative Risk Assessment of Combined Exposure
to Food Contaminants and Natural Toxins
DESIGN OF A NEW INTEGRATED RISK ANALYSIS APPROACH
FOR FOODS
Consumer Confidence in Risk Analysis Practices
Regarding Novel and Conventional Foods
Investigation of the Role of Regulatory
Institutions in Risk Management
Management, Co-ordination and IPR
Dissemination and Training
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SAFE FOODS
Risk Analysis Framework

• Risk Assessment
• Hazard identification
• Hazard characterization
• Exposure assessment
• Risk characterization

• Risk Management
• Assess policy alternatives
• Select and implement appropriate options

Increased transparency increased
credibility? Incorporation of societal values
to create an integrated framework
Risk Communication and Stakeholder Involvement
Interactive exchange of information and
opinions
(after WHO, 1998)
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Objectives

• To develop a New Risk Analysis Approach for
  foods that integrates risk assessment of human
  quantitative and qualitative health aspects,
  consumer preferences and values, and analysis of
  socio-economical aspects
• To integrate the outcomes of the different
  research tasks of the IP into a new risk analysis
  approach for foods
• To develop scientific, social, and economic
  criteria for risk analysis of foods
• To develop a mechanism for regular update of
  risk assessment criteria based on scientific
  developments.

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Objectives

• To provide mechanisms for active consumer
  participation in risk assessment and risk
  management processes.
• To develop strategies for optimal risk
  communication throughout the whole process of
  risk analysis.
• To contribute to an internationally accepted
  approach for risk analysis of foods.
• To actively make use of completed and
  currently on-going research carried out in
  related EU research and other programmes

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Partners and Contribution

• 1 RIKILT (Inst. Food Safety NL) Project
  co-ordination
• 2 SCRI (Scott. Crop Res. Inst. UK) Use of
  profiling methods for safety assessment
• 10 NFC (Nat. Food Cent. IRL) Early risk
  identification
• 17 NFA (Nat. Food Admin. SE) New approaches in
  risk modelling
• 21 WU (Wageningen Univ. NL) Consumer confidence
  in risk analysis practices
• 24 DIA (D) Changes in institutional role in
  risk management
• 31 CEIS (Univ. Rome I) Integration economic
  aspects in risk analysis
• 19 DFVF (Inst Food Saf. Toxicol. DK) General
  risk assessment aspects
• Ariane Koenig Review/evaluation activities

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SAFE FOODS
NEW RISKS IN EXPANDING MARKETS CAPACITY BUILDING
PROBABILISTIC/ DETERMINISTIC RISK
ASSESSMENT COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT QUANTIFY
UNCERTAINTIES
COMPARATIVE PROFILING ANALYSIS HISTORY OF SAFE
USE
INTEGRATED SCIENCE-BASED SYSTEMIC RISK ANALYSIS
MODEL
CONSUMER CONFIDENCE/PREFERENCE VALUE
JUDGEMENT RISK ACCEPTABILITY PRECAUTION
NEW APPROACHES FOR SYSTEMIC RISK ANALYSIS NON-
STATIC PROCESS ADAPTATION
STAKEHOLDERS DIALOGUE COMMUNICATION TRAINING
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Integration Results from Research Tasks

• WP 1 Comparative database with profiles of foods
  produced by different methods defines concept of
  History of Safe Use and natural variations
• predictive power/limitations
• use of profiling for risk assessment
• strategies for further targeted toxicological
  assessment
• uncertainty analysis
• consumer attitudes
• consequences for formal risk assessment policies

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Integration Results from Research Tasks

• WP 2 Working procedure to identify new emerging
  risks in food production chains in an early phase
• activities in the risk assessment process on a
  regular basis
• stakeholders, involvement
• consumer concerns/perceptions regarding new risks
  
• criteria development for socio-economical impact
  analysis
• integration in the institutional setting

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Integration Results from Research Tasks

• WP 3 New probabilistic approaches for risk
  assessment of food contaminants
• suitability for risk assessment
• identification of vulnerable groups
• uncertainties in risk assessment
• comparative risk assessment strategies

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Integration Results from Research Tasks

• WP 4 Consumer confidence/preference for risk
  analysis practices
• determing factors to develop and maintain
  consumer confidence
• communication strategies on risk uncertainty,
  high-risk groups
• WP 5 Changes in the role and structures in
  regulatory institutions
• requirements to incoporate socio-economic
  consequences in the risk analysis process of
  foods

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Characteristics of the New Risk Analysis Model

• Integration of assessment of human health aspects
  of foods into a broader socio-economical context.
  
• Active stakeholder participation in the various
  stages of the risk analysis process.
• Improved functional and structural risk
  management procedures.
• Improved risk communication with stakeholders
  throughout the process of risk analysis.
• Pan European applicability.

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Inclusion of New Quality of Life Criteria in the
Risk Analysis Process

• Human physical and psychological health
• Animal welfare
• Environmental impact
• Benefit considerations
• Accepatability, cultural attitudes
• Socio-economical impact
• Essential part of the risk assessment or in
  addition?

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Deliverables

• Review of current risk analysis approaches
  applied to foods produced by different practices
  in European and other countries.
• Report on the integration of scientific,
  societal, and economic criteria for risk analysis
  and how the risk analysis process can be made
  more responsive to progress in science, and to
  changing societal norms and values.
• Document describing responsibilities and
  conditions for active participation of the
  different stakeholders in the different elements
  of the risk analysis process.
• Report describing successful, cost-effective and
  easy to implement risk communication strategies
  with stakeholders.

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Deliverables

• Report with recommendations for application of
  the precautionary principle to the introduction
  of foods produced by different production
  practices.
• Report on how to assess and evaluate the societal
  and economical impact of the implementation of
  the new integrated risk analysis approach.
• New Risk Analysis Approach for foods based on
  integration of scientific principles, consumer
  concerns and preferences, and societal and
  economic values
• Platform and Workshops to evaluate the newly
  developed Risk Analysis Approach in collaboration
  with representatives of the various stakeholders
  groups

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Verification and Implementation of the Model

• Testing of the New Risk Analysis Framework by
• EU DG Health and Consumer protection
• EU DG Agriculture
• EU DG Enterprise
• EUDG Research
• EFSA, National Food Authorities
• FAO/WHO/OECD
• BEUC,ILSI
• Platform, interactive Workshops, interviews

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SAFE FOODS
New Integrated Risk Analysis Approach