Conducting fit‐for‐purpose food safety risk assessments

Food for Thought ... Integrated Testing Strategies for Safety Assessments

Replacing a test on a living organism with a cellular, chemicoanalytical, or computational approach obviously is reductionistic. Sometimes this might work well, e.g., when an extreme pH is a clear indication of corrosivity. In general, however, it is naïve to expect a single system to substitute for all mechanisms, the entire applicability domain (substance classes), and degrees of severity. St...

Microbial food safety risk assessment

Role of risk assessments in viral safety: an FDA perspective.

Safety, Security and Quality: Lessons from GMO Risk Assessments

Risk Perception of Food Safety by School Food-handlers

An exploratory descriptive study was conducted with a qualitative approach that used focus groups. The objective of this study was to identify the risk perception of food safety by school food-handlers. The results indicated that the food production process has certain inadequacies, including the weak risk perception by the food-handlers regarding the student's health. The students, the pedagog...