Abstract
This paper gives an overview of the possibilities of using meat and dairy consumption studies in food safety and environmental risk scenarios. For both types of riskbased scenarios, common denominators are consumption patterns such as frequency and quantity of consumed food, demographic profile of consumers and food safety hazard or environmental impact of a specific type of food. This type of data enables development of simulation models where the Monte Carlo method is considered as a useful mathematical tool. Synergy of three dimensions – field research used in consumption studies, advanced chemometric tools necessary for quantifying chemical food safety hazards or environmental impacts and simulation models – has the potential to adapt datasets from various sources into useful food safety and/or environmental information.
Highlights
Knowledge of food patterns of a certain population is important for understanding various dietary profiles [1] and can aid in deploying the data into various risk-based scenarios
Synergy of three dimensions – field research used in consumption studies, advanced chemometric tools necessary for quantifying chemical food safety hazards or environmental impacts and simulation models – has the potential to adapt datasets from various sources into useful food safety and/or environmental information
The aim of this paper is to present a generic food safety and environmental risk-based model based on consumption surveys dealing with animal origin food
Summary
Knowledge of food patterns of a certain population is important for understanding various dietary profiles [1] and can aid in deploying the data into various risk-based scenarios. In order to perform a food consumption survey, it is mandatory to develop a structured questionnaire taking into account general principles and guidelines on data collection of national food consumption outlined by the European Food Safety Authority [2]. It covers basic demographic data such as gender, age and weight, and depends on the type of research specific information such as frequency and quantity of food consumption [3]. The Food and Agriculture Organization/World Health Organization (FAO/WHO) define exposure assessment as a “qualitative and/or quantitative evaluation of the likely intake of a chemical agent via food” [4] To perform such an analysis, contamination and food consumption data are combined to obtain an estimation of the exposure level. In order to analyse environmental impacts associated with food consumption, it is important to have dietary patterns and consumed quantities
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