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Risk Assessment of Food Allergens – Part 2: Review and establish threshold levels in foods for the priority allergens.
Authors: FAO
- Journals: FAO
- Pages:
- Volume: Food Safety and Quality Series No. 15.
- Year: 2022
Knowledge of thresholds constitutes a critical requirement to assessing the risk from allergens, as they are a characteristic of the hazard that allergens present to the food-allergic population. FAO and WHO reconvened the Ad hoc Joint FAO/WHO Expert Consultation on Risk Assessment of Food Allergens for a second meeting to provide scientific advice on review and establish threshold levels in foods for the priority allergens. The expert committee concurred that the benchmark dose/probabilistic hazard assessment approach aligned most closely with the requests of the Codex Committees. After extensive discussion, the expert committee reached a consensus on reference doses (RfD) for priority allergenic foods, meeting the criterion for HBGV that they should reflect a range of exposure without appreciable health risk. https://doi.org/10.4060/cc2946en