MRA basic awareness course
Overview
Basic Awareness Course on
Microbiological Risk Assessment
Overview – Basic awareness course on microbiological risk assessment
What is it?
• A basic awareness course
• Aims to raise awareness of MRA, the concept
and its application
• Explains how MRA fits into the Risk Analysis
Framework
• Explains how MRA can be used as a basis for
decision making
• Describes what’s happening at international
level
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Overview – Basic awareness course on microbiological risk assessment
What it is not!
• A how-to-do MRA course
• A highly technical course
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Overview – Basic awareness course on microbiological risk assessment
Contents
• 11 lectures
• Working group exercises
• Resource material and links
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Overview – Basic awareness course on microbiological risk assessment
Target audience
• Food safety risk managers, policy
makers
• Scientists – primarily those not
currently involved on MRA
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Overview – Basic awareness course on microbiological risk assessment
Overview – Topic 1
Risk Analysis in Public Health and
International Trade in Food:
Introducing the Risk Analysis concept
• Setting the scene
• Function and concept of risk analysis –
the big picture
• Introduces the components of risk
analysis
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Overview – Topic 2
Microbiological Risk Management:
Principles, process and preliminary activities
• Understand principles and concept of MRM
• Describe how MRA fits into MRM…linkages
• Introduce public health goals
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Overview – Topic 3
Microbiological Risk Assessment
• 3 lectures
– Principles and Concept
– Elements and approaches
– Example: The FAO/WHO Listeria monocytogenes risk
assessment
• Facilitate understanding of the MRA process, its
components and its outputs
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Overview – Topic 4
Introducing JEMRA
• International activities on MRA
• Background to and objective of these activities
• How to contribute, participate and benefit from
these activities
• Examples of how to use the information
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Overview – Topic 5
Using the outcomes of MRA in Microbiological
Risk Management
• What is the role of the risk manager
• Introduce risk management options
• Role of MRA in setting ALOP
• Risk perception and risk communication
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Overview – Topic 6
Implementation of FSO’s and Associated
Measures in Microbiological Risk Management
• Concept and application of FSO, PO, PC
• Use of data from exposure assessment –
product pathogen pathway
• Establishment and use of MC
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Overview – Topic 7
MRA and HACCP
• Understand differences in concepts and
application
• Review similarities
• Clarify the relationship between the two
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Overview – Topic 8
MRA in Practice, Infrastructure and basic
requirements
• What you need to undertake MRA
• Basics first…commitment, capacity, capabilities,
collaboration
• Data for MRA
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Overview – Topic 9
MRA in Practice, Getting started
• Walk through the steps of doing MRA
• Illustrate each step by means of an example
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Additional material
• Proposals for training courses
• Exercises for working groups
• Notes includes on all presentations
• Supplementary lectures
• Glossary of terminology
• Questionnaire and evaluation forms
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Resource material
• Relevant Codex publications
• Relevant FAO and WHO publications including
Microbiological risk assessment series
• SPS agreement
• Links to databases and risk assessment tools
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