Food Safety Risk Assessments are “Data Hungry”
David Hatch — VP, Digital Solutions Marketing, Neogen explains that risk assessments are data hungry.
“I got to sit in a room with the food safety team from a global organization. They were looking at both a hazard analysis and a risk assessment. The hazard is the thing that causes danger. The risk assessment is determining how probable is this thing to happen? And, if it happens, at what frequency does it happen? And, then how severe is the problem, if it happens? So there’s multiple factors in a risk assessment and as the group went through this, it occurred to me just how data hungry this process really is! Right? Because for each different hazard, you have to understand things like, well, “How frequently could this happen?” And without data around the actual occurrences of how frequently it happens, you have to kind of guess at it.”
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