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Project aims

• Methodological development
• The case-studies
• Case study n°1
• Case study n°2
• Case study n°3 & n°4

Innovative aspects

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Innovative aspects

The project aims :

• to move the food safety management from the hazard-based empirical approach to a quantitative risk-based approach, and

• to move the application of the recent definitions of targets, objectives and criteria from simplistic examples to realistic case-studies.

 

Progresses into such directions have been attempted, by public or private research teams as well as international organizations, and it seems to us that they are about to converge and that we are in the convenient position to achieve it.

Our methods and experience will enable us to take up the challenge of keeping the balance between the need for a realistic characterization of the processes (and then complexity, without pointless sophistication) and the need for feasibility of application (and then simplicity, without over-simplification).

Indeed, our methods include the Bayesian networks which provide a good way to dramatically decrease the dimensionality of the model and form a friendly tool to discuss with non-mathematicians. This project also strongly relies on the intensive experience of all partners in QRA and/or HACCP who, for the first time, will join their research efforts.