Application of Risk Assessment in Nutrition
Journal Title: Advances in Food Technology and Nutritional Sciences - Open Journal - Year 2015, Vol 1, Issue 5
Abstract
In 1995, an agreement was made at the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nation/World Health Organization (FAO/WHO) Expert Consultation that risk assessment should be carried out for biological and chemical agents for food standards issues.1 Since then, risk assessment has been considerably evolved in the last two decades as a science-based activity to inform the regulatory public health policy decision making in agri-food field.2,3 Food safety related risk assessment provides a systematic framework to evaluate the probability of occurrence of adverse health outcomes due to an excess exposure to a hazardous agent or agents from food consumption.2 Currently, there has been important improvement in methodologies of data collection, evidence synthesis, and computational techniques for risk assessments that focus on the microbial and chemical hazards along food supply chains. However, risk assessment applications in nutrition (called nutritional risk assessment here) is beyond the areas that have originally been considered as the public health risk assessment realm.
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Bing Wang
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