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Risk-benefit assessment (RBA) of foods is a decision-support tool that assesses the combined beneficial and adverse health effects of foods, diets or food components. It integrates knowledge on nutrition, toxicology, microbiology, and human epidemiology for comprehensive health impact assessments. RBA is thus useful to inform food safety policies or to provide dietary advice based on an integration of the available scientific knowledge. This e-learning provides an introduction to risk-benefit assessment of foods, with an emphasis on methods to quantify the human health impact of food intake.

This e-learning package will introduce participants to the main principles of different structure-based in-silico approaches for estimation of mainly human health toxicological endpoints. The application of in-silico approaches in ecotoxicology will not be addressed in this course.

As part of EFSA’s commitment to transparency, identifying and characterizing uncertainties and explaining their implications for assessment conclusions is an important element of EFSA’s risk assessment process. The EFSA guidance on uncertainty analysis in scientific assessments brings more clarity on how it can be performed in a structured, transparent and unambiguous way. This online tutorial will enhance the understanding and enable the practical implementation of the guidance document on uncertainty analysis in scientific assessments.

This year’s International Conference will be held in Venice (Italy) from June 11 to 15, 2023. Dr. Susanne Schwonbeck from Fraunhofer ITEM will contribute an oral presentation.

In 2023, alternative methods to animal testing will be at the focus of a one-day workshop at Fraunhofer ITEM in Hannover. Please save the date: June 21, 2023. Apart from expert talks on in-vitro and ex-vivo models for toxicology, pharmacology and infection research, there will be plenty of time for scientific exchange.

The workshop Alternatives to Animal Testing will be taking place at Fraunhofer ITEM in Hannover on June, 21, 2023.

The 21st Fraunhofer Seminar "Models of Lung Disease" with up to 120 attendees will be held in Hannover, Germany, on June 22 and 23, 2023, with a thematic focus on lung infection.

The focus of this course is on giving an overview of EFSA´s principles and processes for risk assessment of non-applicant mandates elucidating the different steps by recent and educational examples.