EFSA specialized trainings on certain aspects of food safety risk assessment

LOT 2: Trainings on horizontal scientific assessment methodologies

EFSA is launching several training activities in 2023 to enable the understanding and practical implementation of risk/benefit assessment practices, to strengthen the dissemination of scientific risk assessment Guidance Documents and modeling practices, and to ensure the uptake of Guidance Documents on cross-cutting risk assessment approaches already developed by EFSA. The trainings are intended for members of the EFSA Scientific Committee/Panels, their working groups, EFSA staff, EFSA’s networks, and, if eligible from EFSA’s point of view, other interested parties. 

Training modalities will include on-site training courses at EFSA in Parma (Italy) as well as several virtual trainings such as online seminars, e-learning packages and online tutorials.

If you are interested in making use of this training offer, please register by filling in the corresponding registration form. If EFSA considers you eligible, you will be notified a few days after the registration deadline and will receive further information, such as your log-in data for the e-learning platform, in due time. The online tutorial will be publicly available and requires no registration; the link will be shared here, once the tutorial is online. 

Overview training topics

These are the topics of the training period 2024-2026, planned as e-learnings or virtual seminars. For open registrations, please see "upcoming training courses".

1. The EFSA scientific assessment principles and process

  • Protocol development
     

2. How to identify, characterize and communicate uncertainties in EFSA’s scientific assessments
 

3. Use of new-approach methodologies (e.g. in-silico and in-vitro tools) in chemical risk assessment

  • In-silico models and other relevant modeling approaches
  • AOP and approaches for using mechanistic understanding for risk assessment
  • Evidence integration in the IATA framework, focusing on the AOP informed IATA approach on NAMs to address the data gaps identified  during the iterative process
     

4. Principles of human health risk-benefit assessment of foods

  • The risk-benefit assessment framework 
  • Microbiological and toxicological risk assessment

Upcoming training courses

More information on upcoming courses and registration.

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