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#2024 - 2025 - 2 - Module 1 - Key Definitions

The document defines key concepts related to risk analysis, including risk assessment, hazard, and risk, particularly in the context of food safety. It outlines the components of risk analysis and the steps involved in risk assessment, emphasizing the importance of understanding hazards and their potential health effects. Additionally, it highlights the significance of food safety in preventing foodborne illnesses.

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#2024 - 2025 - 2 - Module 1 - Key Definitions

The document defines key concepts related to risk analysis, including risk assessment, hazard, and risk, particularly in the context of food safety. It outlines the components of risk analysis and the steps involved in risk assessment, emphasizing the importance of understanding hazards and their potential health effects. Additionally, it highlights the significance of food safety in preventing foodborne illnesses.

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Module 1 – Key definitions

| Definition of risk analysis

o RISK ANALYSIS (Codex, 2009b)

A process consisting of three components: risk assessment, risk


management and risk communication.
| Definition of risk assessment

o RISK assessment (Codex, 2009b)

A scientifically based process consisting of the following steps:


hazard identification, hazard characterization, exposure
assessment, and risk characterization.
| Definition of Hazard and Risk

o Hazard

Condition, event, or circumstance that could lead to or


contribute to an unplanned or undesirable event.

o Risk

The likelihood that a person may be harmed or suffers adverse


health effects if exposed to a hazard.
| How to assess the risk?

o Assess the likelihood

Probability / Frequency of exposure to a hazard

o Assess the consequences

Severity / Gravity / Potential consequences


| Focus on food
o HAZARD (Codex, 2009b)

A biological, chemical or physical agent in, or condition of, food


with the potential to cause an adverse health effect.

o RISK (Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28
January2002)

Risk means a function of the probability of an adverse health


effect and the severity of that effect, consequential to a hazard.
| Focus on food

o Food safety (European union)

Food safety is a scientific discipline describing the handling,


preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent Foodborne
illnesses.
| Focus on food
| Focus on food

FOCUS ON FOOD SAFETY

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