Food Safety Risk Assessment
(Description for Face-Face Summer Integrated Program only.)
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This is the original flagship course of the JIFSAN food safety risk
analysis curriculum. Food Safety Risk Assessment predicts the likelihood
of harm resulting from exposure to chemical, microbial and physical agents
in the diet. Our course introduces the range of risk assessment
approaches across a wide spectrum of food safety hazards, providing hands-on
experience with both qualitative and quantitative techniques.
It is strongly recommended that this course be taken after you
have completed the Overview of Risk Analysis course. The Overview
course provides contextual information about risk analysis that is
not repeated here.
Overview of Topics
Context of Food Safety Risk
Assessment
- Historical Development
- Tolerable Risk
- International Food Safety
- Communication with Decision Makers
- Formal Definitions
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The Risk Assessor’s Toolbox
- Screening and Ranking Tools
- Generic Processes
- Probabilistic Scenario Analysis
- Bayesian Methods
- Red Book Paradigm
- Monte Carlo Analysis
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Applications
- Food Additives
- Microbial Risks
- Food Security
- Biotechnology
- Food Contaminants
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Components
- Dealing with Variability and Uncertainty
- Hazard Identification
- Dose-response
- Risk Characterization
- Common Probability Distributions
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Learning Objectives After completing this course, students can:
- Describe the fundamental reasons for doing risk analysis
- Identify key developments in the role of risk assessment in international food safety
- Define what screening and ranking tools are
- Rank a list of pathogens
- Demonstrate familiarity with the wide range of formal definitions
of risk assessment and list the steps of the Codex risk assessment
definition
- Build a simple event tree
- Differentiate variability and uncertainty in risk assessment
- List and discuss the steps in the basic approach to food safety assessment
- List and define the steps of the Red Book paradigm
- Identify at least three kinds of uncertainty that can be present
in a risk assessment
- Discuss the significance of uncertainty and variability to the risk
assessor
- Discuss the significance of uncertainty and variability to the risk
manager
- Discuss the role of probability in quantitative risk assessment
- Identify several of the more frequently used probability distributions
in risk assessment
- Describe the differences between chemical and microbial risk assessment
- Identify aspects of bioterrorist risk assessment that distinguishes
it from other risk assessments
- Outline the conduct of a whole food risk assessment
This course meets a requirement of the JIFSAN Core Certificate
In Food Safety Risk Analysis.
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