The recent food safety crises (BSE, dioxine, mycotoxin, etc) have shown the vulnerability of the food production systems and have decreased the consumers trust in the regulatory institutes dealing with these problems. It is desirable to detect emerging food safety problems in an early stage making it possible to deal with these problems pro-actively. In the BO program Emerging Risk in the Dutch Food Chain a concept has been developed (ERDSS) that uses information from inside and outside the food production chain to identify emerging food safety risks. This subproject has studied the possibilities to build an operational emerging risk system based on this principle. Furthermore it was investigated if and how ERDSS can be integrated with ERI text mining system as developed by TNO.
Research objectives:
The aim of this project is to develop a plan for the development of an emerging risk system for food and feed which is based on the ERDSS prototype developed within the first 3 years of the project Emerging Risks in the Dutch Food Chain .
Results and products:
The study performed showed that an operational Emerging Risk system based on the so called holistic principle seems possible but some further innovations are necessary to reach such system. ERDSS and EWI are synergetic and a future emerging risk system would benefit from both approaches. |
