Risk Characterization

Risk Characterization is defined in the Codex Alimentarius Commission Procedural Manual, Fourteenth Edition (2004) as “The qualitative and/or quantitative estimation, including attendant uncertainties, of the probability of occurrence and severity of known or potential adverse health effects in a given population based on hazard identification, hazard characterization and exposure assessment.”

The Joint FAO/WHO Expert Consultation defines risk characterization as the "integration of hazard identification, hazard characterization and exposure assessment into an estimation of the adverse effects likely to occur in a given population, including attendant uncertainties"

Format	Author(s)	Title / Description	Date added	Details
	Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition	2004 Acrylamide in Food Workshop: Update - Scientific Issues, Uncertainties, and Research Strategies Presentations and other materials from this workshop on acrylamide in foods held April 13-15, 2004 in Chicago, IL. Presentations include "An EU Perspective on Acrylamide in Food"/Slayne, Martin; "Acrylamide in Food - Mitigation"/Lingnert, Hans; "Mitigation Options: The FRI Acrylamide Program"/Pariza, Michael W.; "The Updated Exposure Assessment for Acrylamide"/DiNovi, Michael and Howard, Donna; "Characterizing the Risks of Acrylamide in Food"/Gray, George; "Update on FAPAS acrylamide series"/Castle, Laurence; "Report on activities carried out by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre"/Wenzl, Thomas and Anklam, Elke. Presentations and summary reports from working groups are also available. Working groups included "Mechanisms of Formation and Methods of Mitigation," "Analytical Methodology," "Exposure and Biomarkers," "Toxicology and Metabolic Consequences," "Risk Communication," and "Risk Characterization". (more) Event Dates: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 - Thursday, April 15, 2004 Publication Date: Tuesday, April 13, 2004	Apr 28, 2004
	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
	Food Safety and Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture	Avian Influenza Training This course provides the information and resources needed to recognize clinical signs and gross lesions that could be suggestive of Avian Influenza. Click here to launch the course in a separate browser window. (more) Publication Year: 2007	Mar 11, 2008
	American Chemical Society	Chemistry and Safety of Acrylamide in Food Abstracts from the sessions on acrylamide in food at the 227th ACS National Meeting, held March 28-April 1, 2004 in Anaheim, CA. Includes abstracts related to formation and reduction, toxic effects, exposure, risk characterization, carcinogenicity, analysis, data needs, and more. (more) Event Dates: Monday, March 29, 2004 - Wednesday, March 31, 2004 Publication Date: Monday, March 29, 2004	May 12, 2004
	Mucci, L.A., P.W. Dickman, G. Steineck, H.-O. Adami, and K. Augustsson	Dietary Acrylamide and Cancer of the Large Bowel, Kidney, and Bladder: Absence of an Association in a Population-Based Study in Sweden Abstract and report of a study on the link between consumption of acrylamide in foods and the risk of bladder, kidney, or large bowel cancers. Includes a description of study methods and results, and data is provided in tables. (more) Publication Date: Monday, January 13, 2003	Jan 29, 2003
	Sielken and Associates Consulting, Inc.	DistGEN DISTribution GENerator. A tool for Monte Carlo simulation. Applications include exposure and dose analysis, as well as aggregate and cumulative risk characterization. (more)	Jun 3, 2002
	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations/World Health Organization	Enterobacter sakazakii and Other Microorganisms in Powdered Infant Formula Report of a meeting convened by the FAO & WHO on 2-5 Feb. 2004. Includes executive summary and three appendices: List of Background Papers, Data Received in Response to Call for Data, and notes on strategies used in the risk assessment. (more) Publication Year: 2004	Feb 1, 2005
	Sara Fein	FDA Food Safety Surveys 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 describes FDA food safety surveys, including types of information available, methods, data weights, use in exposure assessment, relevance to children, use in risk characterization, strengths of the data, how to access the data, and the ease of collecting this type of data. The pdf version of this presentation is available here. (more) Publication Date: Thursday, July 25, 2002	Aug 19, 2002
	Fazil, Aamir M.	Hazard and Risk Characterization of Salmonella Presentation on hazard and risk characterization of Salmonella, including use of outbreak data and dose-response models. Publication Date: Tuesday, August 7, 2001	May 15, 2002
	Buchanan, Robert L.	Hazard and Risk Characterizations for Listeria monocytogenes in Ready-to-Eat Foods This presentation includes discussion of dose-response models for hazard and risk characterization, including dose-response relations for specific subpopulations. (more) Publication Date: Tuesday, August 7, 2001	May 15, 2002

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