70th Advisory Forum meeting Vienna, Austria, 28-29 November 2018

SETTING FOOD SAFETY RISK ANALYSIS RESEARCH PRIORITIES FOR HORIZON

EUROPE

Marta Hugas EFSA Chief Scientist

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OVERALL FRAMEWORK FOR STRATEGIC PLANNING

EU-RISK ASSESSEMENT

AGENDA

JOINT FOOD SAFETY

RISK ASSESSMENT

PRIORITIES

FOOD SAFETY RESEARCH

COMMUNITY

FOOD SAFETY RISK

ANALYSIS RESEARCH

NEEDS

EFSA STRATEGIC PLANNING

INTEGRATED STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

CASE STUDY

Risk/benefit assessment methodologies in food safety

EFSA strategy:

• Objective: SO4, EFSA’s methodologies and guidances for evidence-based risk assessment

EU-RAA:

• Priority: Development of standard RBA methods

• Partners of consortium: INRA (FR); DTU (DK); University of Porto (PT); ASAE (PT)

• Funding: Partnering Grant

Research community: • Need: health risks deriving

from exposure to multiple chemicals (EUROMIX) -> data that will feed into EFSA RAs

• Partners: RIVM + 21 national organisations + JRC

• Funding: H2020

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RARA - RESEARCH ASSEMBLY - COORDINATION

Policy – Risk Management

EFSA - Knowledge

Broker

Research Community

https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/events/event/180207

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The AF invites the Commission services and national research policy makers and funding programmes to use the outcomes of the RARA to inform their future research agenda setting activities.

Furthermore, EFSA and the AF call for more public investment in food safety research, including the formation of strategic partnerships in the area of food safety, such as European Joint Programmes, European Research Infrastructure Consortia (ERICs), and other initiatives.

JOINT STATEMENT

https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/press/news/180206

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RESEARCH COORDINATION - OBJECTIVES

Become knowledge broker for a wider RA community

Advocate uptake of regulatory research needs

Build synergies with research projects avoiding duplication

Early access to deliverables/outcomes from research projects

Foster impactful research that feeds regulatory science / policy / decision-making

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RESEARCH PLATFORM

Tools

Funding programmes

Upcoming calls

Partner search

On-going research

Project ideas

Twitter / LinkedIn

http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/engage/research-platform

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CONSULTING with:

Scientific Panel members (2015 – 2018)

43 topics were received (grouped into themes)

Panel members and EFSA scientific units

EFSA’s Advisory Forum (until end of September)

EFSA’s Scientific Conference 2018, proposals consulted with wider scientific community

These streams of input have been collated in a discussion paper for consultation on occasion of the Stakeholder Forum meeting

These consultations provide a good basis for EFSA to define its research priorities and needs for Research Programmes and EFSA’s Strategy

CONSULTATION ON RESEARCH NEEDS

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Improve food safety moving towards alternative and sustainable production systems

Development of European Cloud-based integrated data collection, data management, data analysis and reporting system for food safety

Pro-actively anticipating impact of innovations and new technologies on risk assessment

Building capacity for future multi-disciplinary expertise

Social research informing risk assessment and communication

FUTURE RESEARCH STREAMS

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RTD calls for a multi-stakeholder workshop:

A robust science and innovation environment for food safety systems of the future (provisional title) – 17 January 2019.

A workshop to:

discuss the food safety system of the future

the possible needs for action.

Stakeholders will explore options and opportunities for:

The possible creation of a European research infrastructure/platform aligning relevant players in the food safety area.

RTD WORKSHOP – 17 JANUARY 2019

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70th Advisory Forum meeting Vienna, Austria, 28-29 November 2018