Abstract

Risk-based microbiological criteria can offer a tool to control Campylobacter in the broiler meat production chain. Recently two approaches have been applied to derive such criteria and to analyse their potential impact in terms of human health risk reduction: the risk-based version of the established microbiological criteria approach, that applies a microbiological limit (ML) for sample data, and the Danish "case-by- case" risk assessment approach, that applies a limit for the relative risk estimate (relative risk limit, RRL) based on sample data. In this study, data sets from Sweden and Denmark are used to compare the performance of the two approaches in terms of efficiency, i.e. the balance between the residual risk after implementation of the criterion and the percentage of non-complying batches, and the attending uncertainty. The analysis shows that the two approaches are equally efficient, and suggests that the RRL criterion is attended with less uncertainty. The two approaches are compared and their advantages and disadvantages are discussed. Given the uncertainties attending the results of the analysis, more research in terms of data collection, risk assessment and uncertainty analysis would be needed to develop these risk-based criteria further. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Keywords

Food safety standards; Control; Risk assessment; Relative risk; Uncertainty analysis

Published in

Food Control
2015, Volume: 53, pages: 177-184

SLU Authors

• Lindqvist, Roland

  • Department of Molecular Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG2 End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture


UKÄ Subject classification

Microbiology


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2015.01.019

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