Background Food legislation in the European Union and elsewhere includes both hazard-
and risk-based approaches for ensuring safety. In hazard-based approaches, simply the …

Considerable research effort is invested in the development of evidence to help policy
makers and industry deal with the challenges associated with existing and emerging food …

Highlights•Hazard-based food safety approaches cannot sufficiently ensure consumer
protection.•A modern food safety management system should link the hazards to public …

Chapter summary: This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the management of
food-borne risks to consumers. A generic risk management framework (RMF) is described in …

Despite significant efforts by all parties involved, there is still a considerable burden of
foodborne illness, in which micro-organisms play a prominent role. Microbes can enter the …

Abstract The Scientific Committee of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) developed
guidance for performing risk‐benefit assessments of food. The document focuses on human …

Food safety should accomplish food and nutrition security. A key challenge to scale up food
safety globally is to better leverage existing capacity and research working towards …

The past few years have witnessed an upsurge in incidences relating to food safety issues,
which are all attributed to different factors. Today, with the increase in knowledge and …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to review the methods for assessing food safety risk
within a food safety plan. Design/methodology/approach–The research involved analysis of …

Aspects of food safety and quality control are described, with a focus on consumer
protection. On the assumption that there can be no 'zero-risk', not only in life generally but …