General Biological Hazards Risk Assessment

Format	Author(s)	Title / Description	Date added	Details
	Buchanan, Robert; Miller, Arthur	1st International Conference on Microbial Risk Assessment This presentation served as the opening of the 1st International Conference on Microbiological Risk Assessment: Foodborne Hazards, held in Adelphi, MD on July 24-26, 2002. It includes a historical overview of quantitative microbiological risk assessment. (more) Publication Date: Wednesday, July 24, 2002	Aug 16, 2002
	Panel on Biological Hazards, European Food Safety Authority	The 34th plenary meeting of the BIOHAZ Panel Rotterdam: Agenda and minutes from this meeting. Topics discussed include protocol for TSE test evaluation, public health risks involved in the human consumption of reptile meat, and more. (more) Deadline: Friday, October 12, 2007 Event Dates: Thursday, September 6, 2007 - Friday, September 7, 2007	Oct 12, 2007
	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations/World Health Organization	Animal Feed Impact on Food Safety Report of a Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on Animal Feed Impact on Food Safety which was held at FAO Headquarters in Rome from 8 to 12 October 2007. The meeting concluded that ensuring safe feed is an important component of efforts to reduce and prevent food safety hazards and indicated several potential measures to ensure safe feed. Agenda of the meeting, list of participants, experts' resumes and list of documents are included as appendices. The report is being translated in French and Spanish. Printed copies may be requested from: Daniela.Battaglia@fao.org. (more) Publication Year: 2008	Feb 26, 2008
	Panel on Biological Hazards, European Food Safety Authority	Biological Safety of a Process for the Hydrolysis on-Farm of Dead Pigs - Scientific Opinion of the Panel on Biological Hazards Opinion adopted Jan 23, 2008 resulting from an evaluation of the biological safety of a specific process for the Hydrolysis on-Farm of Dead Pigs. The application concerns the on-farm treatment of pig carcasses and other pig byproducts, through an enzymatic hydrolysis in mesophilic and partially anaerobic conditions within a closed vat for a period of minimum six months. (more) Publication Date: Tuesday, February 5, 2008	Feb 12, 2008
	Panel on Biological Hazards, European Food Safety Authority	Biological Safety of a Process for the Hydrolysis on-Farm of Dead Rabbits - Scientific Opinion of the Panel on Biological Hazards Opinion adopted Jan 23, 2008 resulting from an evaluation of the biological safety of a specific process for the Hydrolysis on-Farm of Dead Rabbits. The application concerns the on-farm treatment of rabbit carcasses and other rabbit byproducts, through an enzymatic hydrolysis in mesophilic and partially anaerobic conditions within a closed vat for a period of minimum six months. (more) Publication Date: Tuesday, February 5, 2008	Feb 12, 2008
	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations/World Health Organization	Call for Data – Enterobacter Sakazakii in Follow-up Formula Following a request from the 39th Session of the Codex Committee on Food Hygiene, FAO and WHO will undertake work to look at risks associated with E. sakazakii in follow-up formula, particularly for infants less than 12 months of age. They request member countries, interested international organizations, industry, academia, non-governmental organizations and any other interested parties to carefully review the data needs and submit any available data to the FAO/WHO JEMRA secretariat. (more) Deadline: Monday, April 14, 2008 Publication Month: January 2008	Feb 29, 2008
	Panel on Biological Hazards, European Food Safety Authority	Call for Scientific Data on the Prevalence of Antimicrobial Resistant Bacteria in Food EFSA is seeking scientific data from Third Parties, which could be useful for the preparation of the Opinion on “Food borne antimicrobial resistance as a biological hazard”. (more) Deadline: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 Publication Date: Thursday, April 17, 2008	May 2, 2008
	Panel on Biological Hazards, European Food Safety Authority	Certain Aspects related to the Feeding of Animal Proteins to Farm Animals - Scientific Opinion of the Panel on Biological Hazards Opinion adopted Oct 17, 2007 resulting from an evaluation of risk from using non-ruminant MBM in pig and poultry feed, once it is possible to distinguish protein origin up to different species and the introduction of certain tolerance levels with regard to small quantities of MBM in animal feed and the parameters which could be utilized to define these tolerance levels and quantities. (more) Publication Date: Thursday, November 15, 2007	Nov 16, 2007
	Buchanan, R.L.; Dennis, S.	Conduct of Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessments by U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition: Lessons Learned This document served as a background paper for the Joint FAO/WHO Consultation held in Kiel, Germany on March 18-22, 2002. It discusses FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN)'s approach to microbial risk assessment, outlines CFSAN's measures to involve interested parties in the risk assessment process, and discusses lessons learned by CFSAN regarding "(1) commissioning a risk assessment, (2) interaction between risk managers and risk assessors during the conduct of a risk assessment, (3) acquiring input from interested parties, (4) peer review, and (5) reporting the results". (more)	Mar 1, 2004
	Powell, Mark; Schlosser, Wayne; Ebel, Eric	Considering the Complexity of Microbial Community Dynamics in Food Safety Risk Assessment This article explores the importance of interspecific competition in predictive microbiology and how microbial community dynamics could be incorporated into food safety risk assessment. (more) Publication Year: 2004	Jan 7, 2004

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