PREPARE DATA FOR RISK ASSESSMENT

The Pathogens-In-Foods Database “Prepare Data for Risk Assessment” was presented at the 80th EFSA’s Advisory Forum virtual meeting on the 9th June 2021. Dr. Moez Sanaa highlighted three key features of this project: Readiness for risk assessment, Embedded technical expertise, and Sustainability. With mutualised resources, the PIF database and the associated web application are intended by their developers to be open with free access for researchers and risk assessors.

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Pathogens-in-Foods is up and running

The Pathogens-in-Foods database has been re-designed and is ready to receive data. Users can produce dynamic charts and summary statistics of incidence of bacteria in any food category, on a web application that is highly intuitive and easy to use. Pathogens-in-Foods has solid scientific and computational basis for growth, and is up to serve the scientific community and food authorities.

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Pathogens-in-Foods concept presented at ICPMF11 Conference

The concept of the Pathogens-in-Foods database and application was explained in the presentation entitled “A web application to access and analyse occurrence data of microbial hazards in foods” at the International Conference on Predictive Modelling in Food (ICPMF11), which took place on the 17-20th September 2019 in Bragança, Portugal. Dr. Gonzales-Barron pointed out that Pathogens-in-Foods was conceived to bring together prevalence and enumeration data of biological hazards in foods, which are plenty yet disperse, in a harmonised arrangement.

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