FAO/WHO Joint Expert Meeting on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA): Twenty Years of International Microbiological Risk Assessment

LeJeune, J.T.; Zhou, K.; Kopko, C.; Igarashi, H.

FAO/WHO Joint Expert Meeting on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA): Twenty Years of International Microbiological Risk Assessment

Year of publication 2021

Place of publication Basel, Switzerland ;

Pages 11p.

Author LeJeune, J.T.; Zhou, K.; Kopko, C.; Igarashi, H.

Publisher MDPI ;

Product type Article

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Synopsis (short abstract) Since the late 1990s, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and the World Health Organization (WHO) has convened expert meetings and consultations to address the microbiological risk assessment (MRA). These meetings are held to provide scientific advice in response to requests for from Codex Alimentarius, the international food standard-setting body. Individuals participate in the FAO/WHO joint expert meetings on the microbiological risk assessment (JEMRA) in their personal capacity, as technical experts, yet bring diverse regional and national perspectives that contribute to practical applications, particularly for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Over 370 experts from around the globe have contributed to the meeting outcomes that have been published in nearly 40 monographs in the FAO/WHO microbial risk assessment (MRA) series, addressing particular food commodities with microbial hazard(s) combinations or a methodological aspect of microbial risk assessment. FAO/WHO MRA series inform Codex decision-making for the development of international standards for safe food and fair trade in food products; are consulted by risk managers such as food safety authorities and food business operators to make science-based decisions, and are used by academics to advance food safety research and educate the next generation of food safety professionals.

This is an open access article published externally in Foods (an Open Access Journal by MDPI), Volume 10, Issue 8, published: 13 August 2021

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LeJeune, J.T.; Zhou, K.; Kopko, C.; Igarashi, H. FAO/WHO Joint Expert Meeting on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA): Twenty Years of International Microbiological Risk Assessment. Foods 2021, 10, 1873. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods10081873

Language English