NR AWPX
AU Verloo,D.; Barizzone,F.; Goossens,B.
TI A quantitative assessment of the residual BSE risk in bovine derived products and the risk management actions in Europe based on this assessment
QU International Conference - Prion 2006: Strategies, advances and trends towards protection of society - 3.10.-6.10.2006, Torino, Italy, Lingotto Conference Centre - Oral sessions ORAL-08
PT Konferenz-Vortrag
AB
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) main tasks consist of issuing scientific opinions or conduct risk assessment on all matters linked to food and feed safety, including animal health and welfare, food-borne zoonoses and plant protection. It shares a responsibility on risk communication with the European Commission who acts as risk manager.
Concerning Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in the EU, we currently have come to a stage that amendments of certain measures could be envisaged without endangering the health of the consumer or the policy to eradicate BSE. In that light EFSA was asked to assess the validity of the outcome of a previously conducted quantitative assessment of the residual BSE risk in bovine derived products, carried out for gelatine, tallow and dicalcium phosphate from bones, tallow from fat tissues and tallow from rendered mixtures of tissues, and for the presence of small amounts of meat-and-bone meal in feeding stuffs intended for ruminants. A stochastic quantitative risk assessment model has been developed and was fed with relevant data and expert opinion. The description of the model and the opinions derived from the output can be found on the EFSA website.
We will discuss this quantitative assessment and focus on the assumptions and inputs of the model. Following this, the presentation of the results to the risk managers and the interactive nature of that process are highlighted including different difficulties encountered and the approaches used to make it clear for the risk manager.
Finally we discuss the risk management actions on European level that are or will be taken based on this assessment.
AD European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Parma, Italy
SP englisch
PO Italien