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A Multi-Factorial Risk Prioritization Framework For Food-Borne Pathogens, Julie Caswell Jan 2007

A Multi-Factorial Risk Prioritization Framework For Food-Borne Pathogens, Julie Caswell

Julie Caswell

To lower the incidence of human food-borne disease, experts and stakeholders have urged the development of a science- and risk-based management system in which food-borne hazards are analyzed and prioritized. A literature review shows that most approaches to risk prioritization developed to date are based on measures of health outcomes and do not systematically account for other factors that may be important to decision making. The Multi-Factorial Risk Prioritization Framework developed here considers four factors that may be important to risk managers: public health, consumer risk perceptions and acceptance, market-level impacts, and social sensitivity. The framework is based on the …