Microbiological risk assessment for safe food design & management

An important element of microbiological risk analysis, is risk assessment; a process in which the dynamics of microbiological hazards in the food chain are identified and characterized, and the exposure of consumers to the particular hazards is estimated. The current focus of microbiological risk assessment studies is “how it can best be utilized in food safety management to understand the magnitude of prevailing risk regarding a pathogen/product combination, to design risk intervention scenarios, when appropriate, and to help identify and select risk management options for implementation”. In this poster, an overview of current risk assessment techniques is illustrated using a smoked salmon chain and do’s and don’ts are highlighted.status: publishe