Acute issues of the methodical support of health risk assessment in ensuring product safety: foreign experience and Customs Union practice

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10.21668/health.risk/2013.4.01.eng
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N.V. Zaitseva, P.Z. Shur

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FBSI “Federal Scientific Center for Medical and Preventive Health Risk Management Technologies”, Russian Federation, Perm, 82 Monastyrskaya St., 614045

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An analysis of the methodical support of product safety assessment demonstrated that human health risk criteria are widely used for chemical and microbiological hazardous factors in food products. Furthermore, when developing product risk assessment methodology, it is feasible to utilize the experience of assessment of a risk related to exposure to environmental factors. It is reasonable to supplement the existing methodical approaches to product safety assessment in Customs Union practice with risk evolution assessment, taking into account effects of various severity and with quantitative assessment of individual and population health risks in case of non-compliance with safety requirements.

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product safety, methodcial approaches, health risk assessment, Customs Union
Zaitseva N.V., Shur P.Z. Acute issues of the methodical support of health risk assessment in ensuring product safety: foreign experience and Customs Union practice. Health Risk Analysis, 2013, no. 4, pp. 4-16
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