Oct 1st, 2024
3 mins
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) recently published a report outlining an expert opinion elicitation exercise which was carried out to assess and categorise the potential public health risk associated with 19 categories of imported Products of Animal Origin (POAO).
Food products can be categorised (e.g. high, medium, low) based on potential for causing illness or serious harm (i.e. growth or presence of microbial pathogens, presence of chemical contaminants, biotoxins etc). This type of categorisation can be a useful tool for describing the food safety risks associated with different types, or groups, of imported commodities.
The exercise, conducted by the FSA in 2021, aimed to assess and categorise the risks of different categories of POAO imported into the UK at that time, based on the likelihood of containing hazards at levels that are a potential public health concern. This work was performed to create a data source for other risk assessment activities relating to imported POAO, but the conclusions of this report did not directly inform imported food policy in GB.
The report describes the expert knowledge elicitation (EKE) approach and the estimates and views of the experts, based on the information available to them, at that time.
You can read the report here
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