The main goal of the BTSF Training Programme/Course on Chemical Risk Assessment is to disseminate best practices for the implementation of principles and methods of food chain risk assessment, improving knowledge of this complex area of work and ensuring consistent and high implementation standards across the European Union.
- Objective 1: Promoting reduction of discrepancies in procedural aspects of risk assessment
- Objective 2: Contribute to the harmonisation of risk assessment approaches
- Objective 3: Contribute to increasing transparency and building trust amongst Member States’ authorities in each other’s risk assessments
- Objective 4: Disseminate best practices for risk management and communication
- Objective 5: Promote exchange of experience in order to increase the level of expertise and harmonisation of approaches
The course addresses the following topics:
- Introduction to chemical risk assessment and its legal framework
- Hazard Identification and Characterisation
- Basic concepts in toxicology
- Basic knowledge of different endpoints in toxicity studies
- Chemicals in foods
- Collection of consumption data
- Collection of chemical occurrence data
- Exposure estimations
- Challenge of connecting consumption data with chemical occurrence data
- Short introduction to Risk Communication
This Training Programme has been designed for the profiles and positions described below. Please verify compliance with the selection criteria before submitting or validating applications.
- Have worked in functional areas of food chain risk assessment with a minimum of 3 years of professional experience or
- Have had experience of setting up and implementation of food chain risk assessment in a Competent Authority (covering areas of food/ feed safety, animal health or animal welfare)
| Session | Start Date | End Date | City | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10/02/2020 | 14/02/2020 | Valencia | Spain |
| 2 | 14/02/2022 | 18/02/2022 | online | -- |
| 3 | 24/10/2022 | 18/10/2022 | Rome | Italy |
| 4 | 16/10/2023 | 20/10/2023 | Valencia | Spain |
| 5 | 27/05/2024 | 31/05/2024 | Warsaw | Poland |
The main goal of the BTSF Training Programme/Course on Environmental risk assessment is to disseminate best practices for the implementation of principles and methods of food chain risk assessment, improving knowledge of this complex area of work and ensuring consistent and high implementation standards across the European Union.
- Objective 1: Promoting reduction of discrepancies in procedural aspects of risk assessment
- Objective 2: Contribute to the harmonisation of risk assessment approaches
- Objective 3: Contribute to increasing transparency and building trust amongst Member States’ authorities in each other’s risk assessments
- Objective 4: Disseminate best practices for risk management and communication
- Objective 5: Promote exchange of experience in order to increase the level of expertise and harmonisation of approaches
The course addresses the following topics:
- Introduction on environmental risk assessment (ERA) under the various EU legislation. The course will explain the basics of how to conduct ERA. In particular:
- looking at the different aspects of the environment and environmental compartments;
- exercises in problem formulation to better identify the aspects of the environment that need to be protected from harm, according to environmental protection goals as set by EU legislation;
- how to conduct the selection of non-target organisms for risk assessment evaluation studies, and how to gather relevant evidence. It will include the application and use of statistics to the measurable endpoint results with appropriate interpretation of the biological relevance of statistically significant results;
- environmental exposure assessment. For each of the environmental compartments, scenario models can be selected to generate data and to link environmental exposure assessment to environmental effects;
- life-stage analysis. The developmental stages of wildlife are linked with their temporal and spatial distribution Life stage analysis becomes most relevant when exposure patterns are known, and one can investigate whether exposure is likely to have a detrimental effect at a specifically sensitive life stage, with subsequent population level effects, using appropriate modelling tools.
- Short introduction to Risk Communication.
This Training Programme has been designed for the profiles and positions described below. Please verify compliance with the selection criteria before submitting or validating applications.
Participants must:
- Have worked in functional areas of food chain risk assessment with a minimum of 3 years of professional experience or
- Have had experience of setting up and implementation of food chain risk assessment in a Competent Authority (covering areas of food/ feed safety, animal health or animal welfare).
| Session | Start Date | End Date | City | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 29/11/2021 | 03/12/2021 | online | -- |
| 2 | 14/03/2022 | 18/03/2022 | online | -- |
| 3 | 06/06/2022 | 10/06/2022 | online | -- |
| 4 | 30/01/2023 | 03/02/2023 | Warsaw | Poland |
| 1 | 13/11/2023 | 17/11/2023 | Valencia | Spain |
| 2 | 09/09/2024 | 13/09/2024 | Riga |
Latvia |
The overall objectives of the BTSF Training Programme/Course on Evidence collection, management and integration is to disseminate best practices for the implementation of principles and methods of food chain risk assessment, improving knowledge of this complex area of work and ensuring consistent and high implementation standards across the European Union.
- Objective 1: Promoting reduction of discrepancies in procedural aspects of risk assessment
- Objective 2: Contribute to the harmonisation of risk assessment approaches
- Objective 3: Contribute to increasing transparency and building trust amongst Member States’ authorities in each other’s risk assessments
- Objective 4: Disseminate best practices for risk management and communication
- Objective 5: Promote exchange of experience in order to increase the level of expertise and harmonisation of approaches
The course addresses the following topics:
- Introduction to risk assessment and its legal framework
- Expert knowledge elicitation
- Implementation of expert knowledge elicitation
- Demonstration of the practice
- Communication in practice
This Training Programme has been designed for the profiles and positions described below. Please verify compliance with the selection criteria before submitting or validating applications.
- Have worked in functional areas of food chain risk assessment with a minimum of 3 years of professional experience or
- Have had experience of setting up and implementation of food chain risk assessment in a Competent Authority (covering areas of food/ feed safety, animal health or animal welfare)
| Session | Start Date | End Date | City | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14/11/2022 | 18/11/2022 | Valencia | Spain |
| 2 | 12/12/2022 | 16/12/2022 | Valencia | Spain |
| 3 | 11/03/2024 | 15/03/2024 | Vienna | Austria |
| 4 | 03/02/2025 | 07/02/2025 | Rome | Italy |
The main objective of the BTSF Training Programme/Course on Microbioological risk assessment is:
- to disseminate best practices for the implementation of principles and methods of food chain risk assessment, improving knowledge of this complex area of work and ensuring consistent and high implementation standards across the European Union.
The extended objectives of this training activity are:
- To promote exchange of experience in order to increase the level of expertise and harmonisation of approaches.
- To contribute to increasing transparency and building trust amongst Member States’ authorities in each other’s risk assessments.
- To contribute to the harmonisation of risk assessment approaches.
- To disseminate best practices for risk management and communication.
- To promoting reduction of discrepancies in procedural aspects of risk assessment.
The course addresses the following topics:
- Food intoxication versus food infection
- Serious risk perception vs Qualified Presumption of Safety
- Genome sequencing
- Pathogen-product pathway
- The disease triangle (pathogen virulence-host susceptibility-food matrix)
- Sources of dose-response data (human volunteer feeding studies, epidemiological data, animal studies, in vitro studies)
- Modelling dose-response relationship (types of models, selection of dose-response model)
- Microbial processes (such as growth and inactivation of microorganisms) and food handling processes (such as cross-contamination), statistical inference
- Qualitative and qualitative (deterministic vs. stochastic) models, simple vs. structured models
- Uncertainty and variability in exposure assessment
- Sensitivity analysis and “what if” scenariosRisk management aspects specifically related to microbiological risk assessment and other related issues (e.g. antimicrobial resistance, BSE and other TSE prions)
- Risk communication
This training programme has been designed for the profiles and positions described below. Please verify compliance with the selection criteria before submitting or validating applications.
- Professional experience in national authorities and public institutions (including so called "Art. 36 of Reg. 178/2002" organisations) involved in food chain risk assessment
- Experience in the specific field of microbiological risk assessment.
- Experience in crisis investigation and management
| Session | Start Date | End Date | City | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25/01/2020 | 29/01/2020 | Bologna | Italy |
| 2 | 31/05/2021 | 04/06/2021 | online | -- |
| 3 | 04/07/2022 | 08/07/2022 | valencia | Spain |
| 4 | 09/10/2023 | 13/10/2023 | Warsaw | Poland |
| 5 | 17/06/2024 | 21/06/2024 | Rome | Italy |
The main goal of the BTSF Training Programme on Pest and plant protection risk assessment is to disseminate best practices for the implementation of principles and methods of food chain risk assessment, improving knowledge of this complex area of work and ensuring consistent and high implementation standards across the European Union.
- Objective 1: Promoting reduction of discrepancies in procedural aspects of risk assessment
- Objective 2: Contribute to the harmonisation of risk assessment approaches
- Objective 3: Contribute to increasing transparency and building trust amongst Member States’ authorities in each other’s risk assessments.
- Objective 4: Disseminate best practices for risk management and communication
- Objective 5: Promote exchange of experience in order to increase the level of expertise and harmonisation of approaches.
The course addresses the following topics:
- Introduction to pest and plant protection risk assessment (Legal framework, Preparation of PRA, Data requirements for plant pest risk assessment and uncertainties, Plant pest initiation and categorisation)
- Risk assessment in practice: initiation phase and pest categorization, risk assessment on the border crossings
- Risk assessment in practice: entry, establishment and spread
- Assessment of potential consequences
- Risk management
- Risk analysis and reporting
- Risk communication and surveillance
This Training Programme has been designed for the profiles and positions described below. Please verify compliance with the selection criteria before submitting or validating applications.
Participants must:
- Have worked in functional areas of food chain risk assessment with a minimum of 3 years of professional experience or
- Have had experience of setting up and implementation of food chain risk assessment in a Competent Authority (covering areas of food/ feed safety, animal health or animal welfare).
| Session | Start Date | End Date | City | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 01/03/2020 | 05/13/2020 | Vienna | Austria |
| 2 | 15/11/2021 | 19/11/2021 | online | -- |
| 3 | 11/07/2022 | 15/07/2022 | online | -- |
| 4 | 29/04/2024 | 03/05/2024 | Riga | Latvia |
| 5 | 18/11/2024 | 22/11/2024 | Valencia | Spain |
Programmi „Parem koolitus ohutuma toidu nimel “ koolitusprogrammi/loomatervishoidu ja loomade heaolu käsitleva riskihindamise kursuse peamine eesmärk on:
- levitada toiduahela riskihindamise põhimõtete ja meetodite rakendamise parimaid tavasid, parandada teadmisi sellest keerulisest töövaldkonnast ning tagada järjepidevad ja kõrged rakendusstandardid kogu Euroopa Liidus;
Koolitustegevuse laiendatud eesmärgid on järgmised:
- Edendada kogemuste vahetamist, et tõsta eksperditeadmiste taset ja ühtlustada lähenemisviise.
- Aidata suurendada läbipaistvust ja suurendada usaldust liikmesriikide ametiasutuste vahel üksteise riskihindamiste vastu.
- Aidata kaasa riskihindamismeetodite ühtlustamisele.
- Levitada riskijuhtimise ja teavitamise parimaid tavasid.
- Edendada lahknevuste vähendamist riskihindamise menetluslikes aspektides.
Kursusel käsitletakse järgmisi teemasid:
- Loomahaiguste importimist ja loomade heaolu käsitleva riskihindamise struktureeritud neljaetapiline lähenemisviis: Ohu kindlakstegemine, ohu iseloomustus, kokkupuute hindamine, riski kirjeldamine
- Impordiriski hindamine (IRA)
- Risk – kasulikkuse hindamine loomade heaolu valdkonnas
- Haiguste sissetoomise ja levikuga seotud tagajärjed
- Kvalitatiivne vs. kvantitatiivne hindamine
- Stsenaariumipuu mudelid
- Määramatus ja varieeruvus
- Sidusrühmade konkreetne riskiteavitus
- Juhtumiuuringutel põhinev õpe
Koolitusprogramm on koostatud allpool kirjeldatud profiilide ja ametikohtade jaoks. Palun kontrollige enne taotluste esitamist või kinnitamist vastavust valikukriteeriumidele.
- Erialane töökogemus toiduahela riskihindamisega tegelevates riigiasutustes ja riigiasutustes (sealhulgas määruse (EÜ) nr 178/2002 artikli 36 kohased organisatsioonid)
- Loomatervise ja loomade heaolu suhtes kohaldatava riskihindamise erivaldkonnas saadud kogemused
- Kriisiuurimise ja -juhtimise kogemus
| Seanss | Alguskuupäev: | Lõppkuupäev | City | Riik |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 07/06/2021 | 11/06/2021 | veebis | – |
| 2 | 21/02/2022 | 25/02/2022 | veebis | – |
| 3 | 23/05/2022 | 27/05/2022 | Bologna | Itaalia |
| 4 | 18/03/2024 | 22/03/2024 | Varssavi | Poola |
| 5 | 20/01/2025 | 24/01/2025 | Valencia | Hispaania |
Programmi „Parem koolitus ohutuma toidu nimel “ koolitusprogrammi peamine eesmärk on:
- levitada toiduahela riskihindamise põhimõtete ja meetodite rakendamise parimaid tavasid, parandada teadmisi sellest keerulisest töövaldkonnast ning tagada järjepidevad ja kõrged rakendusstandardid kogu Euroopa Liidus.
Koolitustegevuse laiendatud eesmärgid on järgmised:
- Edendada kogemuste vahetamist, et tõsta eksperditeadmiste taset ja ühtlustada lähenemisviise.
- Aidata suurendada läbipaistvust ja suurendada usaldust liikmesriikide ametiasutuste vahel üksteise riskihindamiste vastu.
- Aidata kaasa riskihindamismeetodite ühtlustamisele.
- Levitada riskijuhtimise ja teavitamise parimaid tavasid.
- Edendada lahknevuste vähendamist riskihindamise menetluslikes aspektides.
Kursusel käsitletakse järgmisi teemasid:
- Struktureeritud neljaastmeline lähenemisviis geneetiliselt muundatud organismide riskihindamisel: Ohu kindlakstegemine, ohu kirjeldamine, kokkupuute hindamine, riski kirjeldamine
- Ohu kindlakstegemise ja iseloomustamise põhimõtted ja meetodid, kui neid kohaldatakse terve toidu/sööda suhtes
- Määramatus ja varieeruvus
- Tõendite kaalukusel põhinev lähenemisviis
- Riski vähendamine
- Turustamisjärgne järelevalve
- GMOde keskkonnaohu hindamine
- Uued molekulaarsed aretusmeetodid (RNAi, CRISPR/Cas) ja nendega seotud probleemid riskihindamisel
- Geneetiliselt muundatud taimed, mikroorganismid, loomad (selgrootud) ja putukad
- Sünteetiline bioloogia
- Oomika kui riskihindamise uus vahend
- Riskiteavitus
Koolitusprogramm on koostatud allpool kirjeldatud profiilide ja ametikohtade jaoks. Palun kontrollige enne taotluste esitamist või kinnitamist vastavust valikukriteeriumidele.
- Erialane töökogemus toiduahela riskihindamisega tegelevates riigiasutustes ja riigiasutustes (sealhulgas määruse (EÜ) nr 178/2002 artikli 36 kohased organisatsioonid)
- Biotehnoloogia riskihindamise erivaldkonnas saadud kogemused
- Kriisiuurimise ja -juhtimise kogemus
| Seanss | Alguskuupäev: | Lõppkuupäev | City | Riik |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 07/03/2022 | 11/03/2022 | veebis | – |
| 2 | 12/09/2022 | 16/09/2022 | Rooma | Itaalia |
| 3 | 22/01/2024 | 26/01/2024 | Rooma | Itaalia |
| 4 | 04/11/2024 | 08/11/2024 | Riia | Läti |
Koolitusprogrammi „Parem koolitus ohutuma toidu nimel “/toidualase riskihindamise kampaania peamine eesmärk on:
- levitada parimaid tavasid toiduahela riskihindamise põhimõtete ja meetodite rakendamiseks, parandada teadmisi sellest keerulisest töövaldkonnast ning tagada järjepidevad ja ranged rakendusstandardid kogu Euroopa Liidus.
Koolitustegevuse laiendatud eesmärgid on järgmised:
- Edendada kogemuste vahetamist, et suurendada eksperditeadmiste taset ja ühtlustada lähenemisviise.
- Aidata suurendada läbipaistvust ja suurendada liikmesriikide ametiasutuste usaldust üksteise riskihindamiste vastu.
- Aidata kaasa riskihindamise lähenemisviiside ühtlustamisele.
- Levitada riskijuhtimise ja teabevahetuse parimaid tavasid.
- Edendada lahknevuste vähendamist riskihindamise menetluslikes aspektides.
Kursusel käsitletakse järgmisi teemasid:
- Toidu kaudu omastamise hindamine
- Toitainete omastamise hindamine
- Makro- ja mikrotoitained
- Toitumisalased võrdlusväärtused
- Lubatav ülemine tarbitav kogus
- Ohu kirjeldus
- Aruandlus
- Tarbimise eelhindamise meetodid
- Uuendtoidud
- Riski ja kasulikkuse hindamine
- Riskiteavitus
Koolitusprogramm on koostatud allpool kirjeldatud profiilide ja ametikohtade jaoks. Palun kontrollige enne taotluste esitamist või kinnitamist vastavust valikukriteeriumidele.
- Erialane töökogemus toiduahela riskihindamisega tegelevates riigiasutustes ja riigiasutustes (sealhulgas määruse 178/2002 artikli 36 kohastes organisatsioonides)
- Kogemused toitumisega seotud riskide hindamise valdkonnas
- Kriisiuurimise ja -juhtimise kogemus
| Seanss | Alguskuupäev: | Lõppkuupäev | City | Riik |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 01/11/2021 | 05/11/2021 | veebis | – |
| 2 | 12/06/2022 | 16/06/2022 | Barcelona | Hispaania |
| 3 | 04/12/2023 | 08/12/2023 | Rooma | Itaalia |
| 4 | 21/10/2024 | 25/10/2024 | Viin | Austria |
Programmi „Parem koolitus ohutuma toidu nimel“ koolituskursuse „ ELi riskianalüüsi lähenemisviis kolmandatele riikidele “ üldeesmärk on levitada toiduohutuse riskianalüüsi põhimõtteid ja meetodeid, parandada teadmisi sellest keerulisest töövaldkonnast, parandada kolmandate riikide teadmisi Euroopa kontrollisüsteemidest ja õigusaktidest.
Kursusel käsitletakse järgmisi teemasid:
- Riskihindamise kontseptsioon (nagu seda kohaldatakse riiklikes, EFSAs ja muudes rahvusvahelistes toiduohutusorganisatsioonides).
- Rahvusvaheliste reguleerivate asutuste roll ja rahvusvahelised riskihindamise suunised.
- Riskianalüüsi kolm komponenti – riskihindamine, riskijuhtimine ja riskiteavitus.
- Riskihindamise etapid vastavalt WHO-le: probleemi sõnastamine, ohu kindlakstegemine, ohu kirjeldamine, kokkupuute hindamine ja riski iseloomustamine.
- Kuidas teha struktureeritud riskihindamist.
- Ohu ja riski kindlakstegemise protsess.
- Reguleeritud toodete ja taimetervise riskianalüüs.
- Keemilised saasteained ja keemiline riskianalüüs (ohu tuvastamine, ohu kirjeldamine, kokkupuute hindamine ja riski iseloomustamine keemilise riski hindamisel, riskijuhtimine ja riskist teavitamine).
- Zoonoosi ja loomatervishoiu riskianalüüs, keskendudes mikrobioloogilisele riskianalüüsile.
- Uus ametliku kontrolli määrus ning toidu- ja söödaalane kiirhoiatussüsteem (RASFF).
- Kriisijuhtimine.
Osalejad esindavad ametlikes kontrollides osalevate pädevate asutuste töötajaid ning toiduohutuspoliitika arendamise ja ekspordi eest vastutavate põllumajandusministeeriumide töötajaid.
Nende taustast ja ametikohast peaks ilmnema, et koolitustegevuses osalemine on pädevuse parandamise põhielement.
| Seanss | Alguskuupäev: | Lõppkuupäev | City | Riik |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12/06/2023 | 15/06/2023 | Skopje | Põhja-Makedoonia |
| 2 | 16/06/2023 | 22/06/2023 | DAR es Salaama | Tansaania |
| 3 | 13/11/2023 | 16/11/2023 | Abidjan | Elevandiluurannik |
| 4 | 11/12/2023 | 14/12/2023 | Rio de Janeiros | Brasiilia |
| 5 | 22/01/2024 | 25/01/2024 | Panamá | Panama |
| 6 | 04/03/2024 | 07/03/2024 | Kuala Lumpur |
Malaisia |
| 7 | 13/05/2024 | 16/05/2023 | Tunis | Tuneesia |
| 8 | 24/06/2024 | 27/06/2024 | Jackarta | Indoneesia |
