EFSA RISK ASSESSMENT HARMONISATION CALL
November 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is advising that national risk assessors use a 'margin of exposure' (MoE) approach to decide contamination rules for carcinogens and genotoxins, rather than always striving to minimise these substances. In a new report, it says the standard ALARA principle (as low as reasonably achievable), does not allow for an evaluation of the actual danger posed by contamination, especially taking into account its "sometimes extremely low level of occurrence in food". Such an approach has the "disadvantage...that it ...
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