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CFSAN Risk & Safety Assessments

As the nation’s food supply becomes more global and complex, decisions about policies aimed at preventing contamination and illness have become even more important to the public’s health. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) uses risk analysis, a concept and framework fostered by the World Health Organization, to ensure that regulatory decisions about foods are science-based and transparent.

Read more about how FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) applies risk analysis, from conventional methods to new, far-reaching tools that use advanced technology to prioritize risks and calculate optimal interventions at Risk Analysis at FDA: Food Safety.


Topics

General Information

Allergens

Animal Drug Residues

Arsenic

BSE/TSE

Escherichia coli

Food Additives

Food Defense

FSMA-Related Risk Assessments

Gluten

Hepatitis A Virus

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus

Listeria monocytogenes

Melamine

Methylmercury

Norovirus

Salmonella

Spice

Vibrio parahaemolyticus

Additional Information



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