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Format	Author(s)	Title / Description	Date added	Details
	Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition	2003 CSL/JIFSAN Joint Symposium - Food Safety and Nutrition: Risk Analysis Presentations The presentations from this symposium address many aspects of food safety and nutrition risk analysis. Event Dates: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 - Friday, June 13, 2003 Publication Date: Friday, June 13, 2003	Jun 17, 2003
	Hart, Andy, et al.	Accounting for Uncertainty in Risk Analysis of Dioxins in Seafood This presentation addresses uncertainty analysis in risk analysis and provides a case study of the uncertainty associated with a risk assessment of dioxins in salmon. It was presented at the 2003 CSL/JIFSAN Joint Symposium - Food Safety and Nutrition: Risk Analysis. (more) Publication Date: Thursday, June 12, 2003	Jun 18, 2003
	Herrman, John L.; Nakashima, Nobumasa	Assuring Science-Based Decisions: Expert Advice and Risk Analysis - Validity of the Process and Dealing with Uncertainty This report was presented at the Conference on International Food Trade Beyond 2000: Science-Based Decisions, Harmonization, Equivalence, and Mutual Recognition, in Melbourne, Australia, October 11-15, 1999. It discusses the importance of scientific advice in the risk analysis process, and includes suggestions on strengthening that process. (more) Publication Date: Monday, October 11, 1999	Aug 6, 2002
	Chamberlain, Mark	Benefits of the Risk Analysis Approach: Perspectives from a Food Industry Presentation on the approach to risk analysis taken at Unilever. It was presented at the 2003 CSL/JIFSAN Joint Symposium - Food Safety and Nutrition: Risk Analysis. (more) Publication Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2003	Jun 18, 2003
	Claycamp, H. Gregg	Case Studies in Antimicrobial Resistance Risk Analysis Presentation on risk analysis for antimicrobial resistance. It was presented at the 2003 CSL/JIFSAN Joint Symposium - Food Safety and Nutrition: Risk Analysis. (more) Publication Date: Thursday, June 12, 2003	Jun 18, 2003
	Codex Alimentarius Commission	Codex Alimentarius Commission - Procedural Manual: Fourteenth Edition This document includes "Working Principles for Risk Analysis for Application in the Framework of the Codex Alimentarius," "Definitions of Risk Analysis Terms Related to Food Safety," and other information on the working of the Codex Alimentarius Commission. Includes as an appendix "General Decisions of the Commission," which includes "Statements of Principle Relating to the Role of Food Safety Risk Assessment". (more) Publication Year: 2004	Jun 8, 2005
	Codex Alimentarius Commission	Codex Alimentarius Commission Procedural Manual: Thirteenth edition This document includes "Working Principles for Risk Analysis for Application in the Framework of the Codex Alimentarius," "Definitions of Risk Analysis Terms Related to Food Safety," and other information on the working of the Codex Alimentarius Commission. Includes as an appendix "General Decisions of the Commission," which includes "Statements of Principle Relating to the Role of Food Safety Risk Assessment". (more) Publication Year: 2004	Sep 9, 2004
	Codex Alimentarius Commission	Codex Alimentarius Commission Twenty-sixth Session, FAO Headquarters, Rome, 30 June-7 July 2003: Report This report addresses such issues as risk analysis policies, draft standards considered, other matters related to the reports of the Codex committees and task forces, and other issues. Includes the "Working Principles for Risk Analysis for Application in the Framework of the Codex Alimentarius" as an appendix. (more) Publication Month: July 2003	Aug 26, 2003
	Food Safety Research Consortium	Constructing the Analytical Tools for a Systems and Risk-Based Approach to Food Safety: Initial Framework Paper for the FSRC Project on Prioritizing Opportunities to Reduce Foodborne Disease: Discussion Draft 1/20/04 Draft document that outlines a framework for a systems approach to prioritizing opportunities to reduce foodborne illness. Models and tools that would support this approach are discussed. (more) Publication Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2004	Feb 10, 2004
	Consumers International	Current Status of Consumer Participation in Food Safety Risk Analysis, and Opportunities for Improvements This paper was presented at the FAO/WHO Global Forum of Food Safety Regulators in Marrakesh, Morocco, January 28-30, 2002. It introduces the efforts of various agencies to encourage consumer participation in the risk analysis process, and suggests ways to improve consumer participation. (more) Publication Date: Monday, January 28, 2002	Aug 6, 2002
	Cho, Sungbaek; Ciechanowicz, Zbigniew	Dealing with Uncertainties in Risk Analysis Using Belief Functions This paper examines the use of belief functions in qualitative risk analysis methods. Subscription is required to access the full text. (more) Publication Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2001	Jun 24, 2002
	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development/IPCS	Description of Selected Key Generic Terms Used in Chemical Hazard/Risk Assessment This document consists of an "Alphabetical List of Selected Generic Terms in Hazard and Risk Assessment and Their Definitions" as well as information on how the definitions were chosen. Remarks by experts on each term are given. Annexes include "List of High Priority Generic Terms Included in the November 1996 OECD/IPCS Survey," "References and Other Source Documents of Descriptions of High Priority Terms," "Original Survey Results," and "Details of the Process of Work Involved in the Development of Harmonised Descriptions of Generic Terms in Hazard and Risk Assessment". (more) Publication Month: October 2003	Jul 1, 2004
	European Food Safety Authority	EFSA's 2nd Stakeholder Colloque Berlin, Germany: "Further development of EFSA's policy towards stakeholders: The way forward for EFSA." Presentations from this colloque include "Consumer confidence and food risk analysis"/Frewer, Lynn; "The trouble with scientists: the pivotal role of the media in public perception of science"/Coulter, Paddy; "The involvement of stakeholders in risk assessment"/Biacs, Peter Akos; "The consumer's role in risk assessment"/DeWaal, Caroline Smith; "The role of consumers in the risk analysis process and in particular risk assessment"/BEUC; "The role of stakeholders in the risk analysis process"/EuroCommerce; and more. (more) Event Dates: Tuesday, November 9, 2004 - Wednesday, November 10, 2004 Publication Date: Wednesday, November 17, 2004	Nov 5, 2004
	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations/World Health Organization	Enhancing Participation in Codex Activities: a FAO/WHO Training Package Manual and related resources for understanding the Codex Alimentarius Commission. Includes discussion of national Codex activities and how to establish and maintain them, the organization of Codex, and the scientific basis for Codex work. Each topic is addressed in several modules to allow for customization of the training package to meet certain training needs. Module 4.1 is on "Risk analysis in the framework of Codex". (more) Deadline: Thursday, October 13, 2005 Publication Year: 2005	Oct 13, 2005
	German Delegate, FAO/WHO Global Forum of Food Safety Regulators	Ensuring Efficient Communication and Interaction Between Food Safety Risk Assessors and Risk Managers This report was presented at the FAO/WHO Global Forum of Food Safety Regulators in Marrakesh, Morocco, on January 28-30, 2002. It was prepared by Germany on the basis of the report of the WHO Expert Consultation "The Interaction Between Assessors and Managers of Microbiological Hazards in Food", held in Kiel, Germany, on March 21-23, 2000. The report discusses the functional separation of risk assessment and risk management, the interaction between risk assessors and risk managers, transparency, and the recommendations of the Expert Consultation. (more) Publication Date: Monday, January 28, 2002	Aug 6, 2002
	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations	FAO Biosecurity Toolkit Toolkit developed by FAO/AGNS on the Integrated Approach to Food Safety and Animal and Plant Health (Biosecurity) which comprises Part 1: Biosecurity principles and components; Part 2: Guide to assess biosecurity capacity and Part 3: An overview and framework manual for biosecurity risk analysis. (more) Publication Year: 2007	Feb 21, 2008
	Jones, Curry, Jody Holdcroft, Carson Odegard, and Richard Lillie	Food Safety Risk Analysis @ University of Washington Website created by professionals in environmental health, water and sewage safety, and consumer safety about risk analysis and risk management as applied to food safety. There is a page devoted to each of risk analysis, risk management, and risk communication, as well as information on HACCP. (more)	Jul 9, 2002
	Codex Alimentarius Commission	Foods Derived from Biotechnology This document includes "Principles for the Risk Analysis of Foods Derived from Modern Biotechnology (CAC/GL 44-2003)," "Guideline for the Conduct of Food Safety Assessment of Foods Derived from Recombinant-DNA Plants (CAC/GL 45-2003)," and "Guideline for the Conduct of Food Safety Assessment of Foods Produced Using Recombinant-DNA Microorganisms (CAC/GL 46-2003)". (more) Publication Year: 2004	Mar 31, 2005
	Committee for Definitions, Society for Risk Analysis	Glossary of Risk Analysis Terms Glossary of terms used in risk analysis and its related fields.	Aug 31, 2001
	Office of Science and Technology, Office of Water, Environmental Protection Agency	Guidance for Assessing Chemical Contaminant Data for Use in Fish Advisories This four-volume set provides guidance on assessing health risks and developing advisories related to the consumption of chemically contaminated non-commercial fish. Volumes include Fish Sampling and Analysis, Third Edition, Risk Assessment and Fish Consumption Limits, Third Edition, Risk Management, and Risk Communication. (more) Publication Month: November 2000	Jan 13, 2004
	Risk Analysis Working Group, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration	Initiation and Conduct of All 'Major' Risk Assessments Within a Risk Analysis Framework This report includes an overview of the CFSAN risk analysis framework, a description of a decision-based approach to identify and select risk assessments, a discussion of conducting risk assessment within the risk analysis framework, examples of communication questions between risk assessors and risk managers, a list of risk communication activities, criteria for identifying candidate risk assessments, and criteria for evaluating technical feasibility. (more) Publication Month: March 2002	Jul 31, 2002
	Lammerding, Anna M.	International Framework for the Interaction Between Assessors and Managers of Microbiological Hazards This presentation was given at the 1st International Conference on Microbiological Risk Assessment held in Adelphi, MD on July 24-26, 2002. It provides background on FAO/WHO frameworks for managing foodborne risks, and describes lapses in the FAO/WHO risk assessments conducted to date. It also addresses the functional need of separation of risk assessment and risk management, the need for guidance on interaction between the two, the need to clearly define the function and scope of the risk assessment, the benefits from the use of microbiological risk assessment, establishing risk assessment policy, commissioning the risk assessment, presentation and consideration of results, option assessment, challenges at the international level, and more. The pdf version of this presentation is available here. (more) Publication Date: Thursday, July 25, 2002	Aug 19, 2002
	International Portal on Food Safety, Animal and Plant Health, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations	IPFSAPH - Risk Analysis Resources on risk analysis from the International Portal on Food Safety, Animal and Plant Health. Includes guidelines, standards, reports, and other texts from international and national bodies. (more)	Mar 31, 2005
	Vose, David	Lecture to USDA-FSIS on the Future of Antimicrobial Risk Analysis Presentation that discusses the pros and cons of FDA's Guidance 152, the politics and controversies surrounding the CVM-Vose fluoroquinolone-resistant Campylobacter risk assessment (including defense against criticisms of the assessment), and future needs to retain the credibility of risk analysis. (more) Publication Month: September 2004	Nov 5, 2004
	Buchanan, Robert	Lessons Learned in Initiating and Conducting Risk Assessments within a Risk Analysis Framework: A FDA/CFSAN Approach This presentation was given at the 1st International Conference on Microbiological Risk Assessment: Foodborne Hazards, held in Adelphi, MD, on July 24-26, 2002. It discusses lessons learned from two large microbial risk assessments and discusses a framework for future risk assessments. The pdf version of this presentation is available here. (more) Publication Date: Thursday, July 25, 2002	Aug 16, 2002
	Food Safety Department, World Health Organization	Microbiological Risks Publications Links to FAO/WHO and Codex publications related to microbiological risk analysis.	Nov 12, 2003
	Interagency Risk Assessment Consortium	RAC Symposium 2004 Agenda and Presentations Agenda, abstracts, presentations, and executive summary of the symposium "Data Collection and Utilization in Risk Assessment and Management Decisions," held September 14, 2004 in College Park, MD. Presentations include "What is Data Utility and How Can Sampling Plans Improve it?"/Coleman, Peg; "Principles of Statistical Design for Microbiological Sampling"/Cole, Martin; "USDA/ARS-FSIS Hot Dog study"/Luchansky, John; "NFPA Survey on Listeria monocytogenes in Ready to Eat Foods"/Chen, Yuhuan; "Listeria and Vibrio Risk Assessment Examples"/Whiting, Richard; "Databases: An essential tool for Decisions"/Chumley, Perry; and "Wrap up and identify next steps/potential future actions"/Bartholomew, Mary. (more) Event Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 Publication Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2004	Apr 22, 2005
	Codex Committee on Food Additives and Contaminants (36th : 2004 : Rotterdam, The Netherlands), Codex Alimentarius Commission	Report of the 36th Session of the Codex Committee on Food Additives and Contaminants The report includes the Committee's decisions and draft documents on topics related to risk analysis, exposure assessment of contaminants and toxins, risk management of aflatoxin in peanuts and tree nuts, of lead in foods, of inorganic tin in canned foods, maximum levels of cadmium in certain grains and vegetables and of deoxynivalenol, levels for radionuclides in foods, standards for food additives, contaminants, and toxins, active chlorine, mycotoxins, and more. (more) Publication Month: April 2004	Apr 30, 2004
	Traill, W. Bruce, Rachel Bedouin, Katharine Gourlie, Jerri Husch, and Alicia Lustre (Evaluation Team)	Report of the Evaluation of the Codex Alimentarius and Other FAO and WHO Food Standards Work Evaluation of the food standards work of the FAO, WHO, and the Codex Alimentarius Commission for the purpose of aiding in future policy, strategy, and management decisions. Includes an overview of FAO and WHO food standards work, discussion of the roles of food standards, an evaluation of and recommendations for Codex, discussion of risk assessment inputs and risk management by Codex, FAO and WHO capacity-building activities, and more. Annexes include "Members of the Evaluation Team and Expert Panel," "Working Terms of Reference," "Resource Use and Resource Requirements for Food standards Work," "Summary of Analysis of Questionnaires," "Countries and International Organizations Visited," "Bibliography of Major Documents Prepared and Consulted for the Evaluation," and "Methodology of the Evaluation". (more) Publication Date: Friday, November 15, 2002	Jan 23, 2003
	Codex Alimentarius Commission	Report of the Seventeenth Session of the Codex Committee on General Principles The report of this session includes the Proposed Draft Working Principles for Risk Analysis in the Framework of the Codex Alimentarius in Step 5 as Appendix II. (more) Publication Date: Friday, April 19, 2002	Jun 19, 2002
	Schierow, Linda-Jo	Risk Analysis and Cost-Benefit Analysis of Environmental Regulations This report examines risk analysis and risk management practices at the EPA. Includes discussion on EPA's risk management practices and their use of risk assessments and cost-benefit analysis in making regulatory decisions. There is also discussion of the value of risk analysis in the formation of EPA regulations. Finally, there is a review of the legislative activities in the 103rd Congress and an outlook for the 104th Congress regarding the use of risk analysis at EPA. This report also includes definitions related to environmental risk analysis. (more) Publication Date: Friday, December 2, 1994	Aug 21, 2002
	Food Safety and Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture	Risk Analysis at FSIS: Standard Operating Procedures This document describes the process of risk analysis as employed at FSIS. The document is referenced in 68 FR 61183, Docket No. 03-032N, "Public Meeting on Risk Analysis; Notice and Request for Comments," available from GPO Access at http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2003_register&docid=fr27oc03-31. (more)	Feb 23, 2004
	F. Kaferstein and W. Hueston	Risk Analysis: The New Paradigm in Food Safety Assurance Kick-off presentation of the 2000 JIFSAN seminar series held at FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, featuring Dr. Fritz Kaferstein, JIFSAN distinguished visiting scientist and former director of Food Safety and Aid Program at the World Health Organization and Dr. Will Hueston, director of the JIFSAN Food Safety Risk Analysis Clearinghouse and Associate Dean of the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine. (more) Publication Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2000	Aug 31, 2001
	Interagency Risk Assessment Consortium	Risk Assessment, Economic Analysis, and Foodborne Illness Regulations - Agenda/Presentations Agenda and presentations of the IRAC-sponsored Public Conference "Risk Assessment, Economic Analysis, and Foodborne Illness Regulations" held November 16, 2007 in Washington DC. Presentations include 'Integrating Risk Assessment and Economics'/Williams, Richard; 'Economic Valuation Methods: COI, VSL, WTP & QALY'/McGartland, Al; 'Common Misperceptions of Cost/Benefit Analysis for Public and Private Decision Making'/McLaughlin, Cristina; 'New Willingness to Pay Estimates of the Demand for Food Safety'/Hammitt, James; 'Using COI and WTP Methods to Estimate the Societal Costs of Foodborne Illness'/Roberts, Tanya; 'Wrap-up Remarks'/Dearfield, Kerry; etc. (more) Publication Date: Tuesday, November 27, 2007	Nov 30, 2007
	Vose, David	Risk Assessment: Purpose and Application Presentation given for the Food Safety Commission in Tokyo, Japan that provides an introduction to risk assessment and risk management, discusses microbial risk assessment, presents problems with and remedies for current risk analysis practice, and more. (more) Publication Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2003	Jun 30, 2004
		Risk: Challenges, Research and Social Implications Papers in this issue address topics related to risk. Papers include "The risks of eating and drinking"/Wilkinson, Susan B.T., Rowe, Gene, and Lambert, Nigel; "The real and perceived risks of genetically modified organisms"/Torgersen, Helge; "Hormesis: a revolution in toxicology, risk assessment and medicine"/Calabrese, Edward J.; "Science in a political environment"/Weingart, Peter; "When even the 'best-laid' plans go wrong"/McComas, Katherine; and more. (more) Publication Month: October 2004	Nov 2, 2004
	Dennis, Sherri B.	Selecting and Conducting 'Major' Risk Assessments: CFSAN's Approach This presentation discusses the risk assessment procedures within the risk analysis process at CFSAN. It was presented at the 2003 CSL/JIFSAN Joint Symposium - Food Safety and Nutrition: Risk Analysis. (more) Publication Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2003	Jun 17, 2003
	Hoffmann, Sandra; Taylor, Michael R.	Toward Safer Food: Perspectives on Risk and Priority Setting This book brings together leading scientists, risk analysts, and economists, as well as experienced regulators and policy analysts, to better define the priorities and to focus on the scientific and intellectual resources available to construct a risk analysis framework for improving food safety. Multi-disciplinary in scope, it provides a solid introduction to the existing data, research, and methodological approaches on which a system-wide risk analysis framework must draw. This web page provides information about the book, including a description, editor bios, and book reviews. The book can be purchased through RFF Press. (more) Publication Month: February 2005	May 5, 2005
	Vose, David	Towards a Risk Analysis of Antibiotic Resistance Presentation from the symposium "Towards a Risk Analysis of Antibiotic Resistance", Bundesinstitut fur Risikobewertung (BfR), Berlin. Includes background information on risk analysis and microbial risk assessment and discusses challenges associated with assessing the risk of antimicrobial resistance. (more) Publication Date: Monday, November 10, 2003	Jul 1, 2004
	Schwetz, Bernard A.	Toxicology Data Basis for Risk Analysis Presentation on how risk analysis involves toxicology data. It gives an overview of many risk analysis considerations. It was presented at the 2003 CSL/JIFSAN Joint Symposium - Food Safety and Nutrition: Risk Analysis. (more) Publication Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2003	Jun 18, 2003
	Vose, David	Use of Microbial Risk Assessment in Decision-Making This presentation was given at the 1st International Conference on Microbiological Risk Assessment: Foodborne Hazards, held in Adelphi, MD on July 24-26, 2002. It presents the principles of risk assessment from several sources (Codex, OIE, Society for Risk Analysis), discusses current modelling practices and problems associated with current risk analysis practices, and presents a case for focusing on decisions when performing risk analysis. The pdf version of this presentation is available here. (more) Publication Date: Wednesday, July 24, 2002	Aug 19, 2002
	European Commission	White Paper on Food Safety This paper describes the EUs proposals for food policy and safety. It addresses all aspects of the risk analysis process. (more) Publication Date: Wednesday, January 12, 2000	Aug 6, 2002
	European Commission	White Paper on Food Safety - Introduction This page provides information on the European Commission's "White Paper on Food Safety", released January 12, 2000. It includes a link to the paper itself, as well as press releases and comments. The paper is available in a variety of languages. (more)	Aug 6, 2002

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