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Food Safety Assessment

A food safety scientist would like to learn the collective wisdom on an exposure assessment detail.

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When conducting food risk assessments, what should be the default intake value (in terms of percentile) used to guide the risk assessments for adverse outcomes assessed for both acute and chronic exposure?

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Food Safety

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  • Result 5258 user-753181

    06/15/2022 10:58

    The chemicals used for food preservation should be biobased and human health oriented.

  • Result 5258 user-42852

    05/05/2022 03:52

    FDA regulations vary from one country to the other. While making food risk assessments, generally the acute and chronic exposures of food component/s or food additive/s in question has to be tested by employing model organism. Due to restrictions imposed by animal ethics in the use of mammalian models, it can be tested on a limited number of animals. However, animal models like C. elegans or Drosophila can be employed in greater numbers to determine toxicity under various environmental conditions and 95% survival denotes safety. In addition, the populations that have been exposed to sub-lethal doses can be utilized for evaluating various parameters such as life span, reproductive safety, recessive mutations, biochemical changes etc.,