The European Commission and the Food and Drug Administration in the USA suggest that risk management and assessment methods should be used to identify and control sources of microbial contamination1,2. A risk management method has been described by Whyte3,4 that is based on the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) system but reinterpreted for use in cleanrooms, and called Risk Man...

The application of the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) system is rapidly progressing, in particular in large and medium scale food industries. The term is becoming well known in food control and public health circles and is one which evokes food safety. However, concomitant with the headway of the HACCP system in food safety management, the incidence of foodborne diseases is ...

This article looks at a new approach to expert elicitation that combines basic elements of conventional expert elicitation protocols with formal survey methods and larger, heterogeneous expert panels. This approach is appropriate where the hazard-estimation task requires a wide range of expertise and professional experience. The ability to judge when to rely on alternative data sources often is...

Given this, initiatives have been undertaken in many countries to formulate more or less voluntary rules. But the vast increase in the number of private reference systems based on the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) method led to a certain amount of confusion among the various groups in the food industry. In September 2005, after three years of work, ISO published a universal ref...

The European Commission and the Food and Drug Administration in the USA suggest that risk management and assessment methods should be used to identify and control sources of microbial contamination1,2. A risk management method has been described by Whyte3,4 that is based on the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) system but reinterpreted for use in cleanrooms, and called Risk Man...

Since the first record of a colliery explosion in Belgium, nearly 300 years ago, significant improvements have been achieved in the prevention of explosions in mines. However, based on the past surface TBM project safety statistics, gas explosion hazards are not unique to coal mines but also occur in TBM projects with 48 explosion fatalities recorded worldwide calling for continued diligence an...

introduction this study examines the level of farmers' perception of hazards, as well as their impacts on efficiency and mentally quality of farmers' life and profession. the relationship between each dimension of quality of work life and efficiency is studied too.   methodology the research method is descriptive and includes a survey of many selected villages in yazd province (farmer...