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 |
Glavni cilj programa usposabljanja BTSF /Naloge za oceno tveganja, ki se uporablja za zdravje in dobro počutje živali, je:
- razširjanje najboljših praks za izvajanje načel in metod ocenjevanja tveganja v prehranski verigi, izboljšanje znanja o tem zapletenem področju dela ter zagotavljanje doslednih in visokih standardov izvajanja po vsej Evropski uniji;
Razširjeni cilji te dejavnosti usposabljanja so:
- Spodbujati izmenjavo izkušenj, da se poveča raven strokovnega znanja in uskladitev pristopov.
- Prispevati k večji preglednosti in krepitvi zaupanja med organi držav članic v medsebojne ocene tveganja.
- Prispevati k uskladitvi pristopov k oceni tveganja.
- Razširjanje najboljših praks za obvladovanje tveganja in obveščanje o njih.
- K spodbujanju zmanjšanja razlik v postopkovnih vidikih ocene tveganja.
Na tečaju se obravnavajo naslednje teme:
- Strukturiran pristop v štirih korakih pri oceni tveganja za uvoz živalskih bolezni in dobrobit živali: Opredelitev nevarnosti, karakteristika nevarnosti, ocena izpostavljenosti, opredelitev tveganja
- Ocena tveganja pri uvozu (IRA)
- Tveganje – ocena koristi pri dobrem počutju živali
- Posledice, povezane z vnosom in širjenjem bolezni
- Kvalitativna/kvantitativna ocena
- Modeli dreves za scenarije
- Negotovost in spremenljivost
- Posebno obveščanje imetnika deležev o tveganju
- Učenje na podlagi študije primera
Ta program usposabljanja je namenjen profilom in funkcijam, opisanim v nadaljevanju. Pred oddajo ali potrditvijo prijav preverite skladnost z merili za izbor.
- Delovne izkušnje v nacionalnih organih in javnih institucijah (vključno z organizacijami iz člena 36 Uredbe (ES) št. 178/2002), ki sodelujejo pri ocenjevanju tveganja v prehranski verigi
- Izkušnje na posebnem področju ocene tveganja, ki se uporablja za zdravje in dobro počutje živali
- Izkušnje s kriznimi preiskavami in upravljanjem
| Zasedanje | Datum začetka | Končni datum | Mesto | Dežela |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 07/06/2021 | 11/06/2021 | Online | — |
| 2 | 21/02/2022 | 25/02/2022 | Online | — |
| 3 | 23/05/2022 | 27/05/2022 | Bologni | Italija |
| 4 | 18/03/2024 | 22/03/2024 | Varšava | Poljska |
| 5 | 20/01/2025 | 24/01/2025 | Valencia | Španija |
Glavni cilj programa usposabljanja BTSF /Curze o oceni tveganja na področju biotehnologije je:
- razširjanje najboljših praks za izvajanje načel in metod ocenjevanja tveganja v prehranski verigi, izboljšanje poznavanja tega zapletenega področja dela ter zagotavljanje doslednih in visokih izvedbenih standardov po vsej Evropski uniji.
Razširjeni cilji te dejavnosti usposabljanja so:
- Spodbujati izmenjavo izkušenj, da se poveča raven strokovnega znanja in usklajenosti pristopov.
- Prispevati k večji preglednosti in krepitvi zaupanja med organi držav članic v medsebojne ocene tveganja.
- Prispevati k uskladitvi pristopov k oceni tveganja.
- Razširjanje najboljših praks za obvladovanje tveganja in obveščanje o njih.
- Spodbujanje zmanjšanja razlik v postopkovnih vidikih ocene tveganja.
Na tečaju se obravnavajo naslednje teme:
- Strukturiran pristop v štirih korakih pri oceni tveganja za gensko spremenjene organizme: Opredelitev nevarnosti, opredelitev nevarnosti, ocena izpostavljenosti, opredelitev tveganja
- Načela in metode za ugotavljanje nevarnosti in opredelitev lastnosti, kadar se uporabljajo za celotno živilo/krmo
- Negotovost in variabilnost
- Pristop na podlagi teže dokazov
- Zmanjševanje tveganja
- Spremljanje po dajanju na trg
- Ocena tveganja GSO za okolje
- Nove tehnike molekularnega žlahtnjenja (RNAi, CRISPR/Cas) in njihovi izzivi za ocene tveganja
- Gensko spremenjene rastline, mikroorganizmi, živali (vretenčarji) in žuželke
- Sintetična biologija
- Omika kot nov nabor orodij za oceno tveganja
- Obveščanje o tveganju
Ta program usposabljanja je namenjen profilom in funkcijam, opisanim v nadaljevanju. Pred oddajo ali potrditvijo prijav preverite skladnost z merili za izbor.
- Delovne izkušnje v nacionalnih organih in javnih institucijah (vključno s tako imenovanimi organizacijami iz člena 36 Uredbe (ES) št. 178/2002), ki sodelujejo pri oceni tveganja v prehranski verigi
- Izkušnje na posebnem področju ocenjevanja tveganja na področju biotehnologij
- Izkušnje s preiskavami in upravljanjem kriz
| Zasedanje | Datum začetka veljavnosti | Končni datum | Mesto | Dežela |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 07/03/2022 | 11/03/2022 | Online | — |
| 2 | 12/09/2022 | 16/09/2022 | Rim | Italija |
| 3 | 22/01/2024 | 26/01/2024 | Rim | Italija |
| 4 | 04/11/2024 | 08/11/2024 | Riga | Latvija |
Glavni cilj programa usposabljanja za varnejšo hrano /Curze o oceni tveganja v prehrani je:
- razširjanje najboljših praks za izvajanje načel in metod ocenjevanja tveganja v prehranski verigi, izboljšanje poznavanja tega zapletenega področja dela ter zagotavljanje doslednih in visokih izvedbenih standardov po vsej Evropski uniji.
Razširjeni cilji te dejavnosti usposabljanja so:
- Spodbujati izmenjavo izkušenj, da se poveča raven strokovnega znanja in usklajenosti pristopov.
- Prispevati k večji preglednosti in krepitvi zaupanja med organi držav članic v medsebojne ocene tveganja.
- Prispevati k uskladitvi pristopov k oceni tveganja.
- Razširjanje najboljših praks za obvladovanje tveganja in obveščanje o njih.
- Spodbujanje zmanjšanja razlik v postopkovnih vidikih ocene tveganja.
Na tečaju se obravnavajo naslednje teme:
- Ocena vnosa s hrano
- Ocena vnosa hranil
- Makro- in mikrohranila
- Prehranske referenčne vrednosti
- Dovoljena zgornja raven vnosa
- Opredelitev tveganja
- Poročanje
- Predhodne metode ocenjevanja vnosa
- Nova živila
- Ocena tveganja in koristi
- Obveščanje o tveganju
Ta program usposabljanja je namenjen profilom in funkcijam, opisanim v nadaljevanju. Pred oddajo ali potrditvijo prijav preverite skladnost z merili za izbor.
- Delovne izkušnje v nacionalnih organih in javnih institucijah (vključno s tako imenovanimi organizacijami iz člena 36 Uredbe (ES) št. 178/2002), ki sodelujejo pri oceni tveganja v prehranski verigi
- Izkušnje na posebnem področju ocenjevanja tveganja na področju prehrane
- Izkušnje s preiskavami in upravljanjem kriz
| Zasedanje | Datum začetka veljavnosti | Končni datum | Mesto | Dežela |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 01/11/2021 | 05/11/2021 | Online | — |
| 2 | 12/06/2022 | 16/06/2022 | Barcelono | Španija |
| 3 | 04/12/2023 | 08/12/2023 | Rim | Italija |
| 4 | 21/10/2024 | 25/10/2024 | Dunaj | Avstrija |
Splošni cilj tečaja usposabljanja BTSF o pristopu EU k analizi tveganja za države, ki niso članice EU, je razširjati načela in metode analize tveganja za varnost hrane, izboljšati poznavanje tega zapletenega področja dela ter izboljšati poznavanje evropskih nadzornih sistemov in zakonodaje v državah nečlanicah EU.
Na tečaju se obravnavajo naslednje teme:
- Koncept ocene tveganja (kot se uporablja v nacionalnih in EFSA ter drugih mednarodnih organizacijah za varnost hrane).
- Vloga mednarodnih regulativnih agencij in mednarodne smernice za oceno tveganja.
- Trije elementi analize tveganja – ocena tveganja, obvladovanje tveganja in obveščanje o tveganju.
- Koraki pristopa k oceni tveganja v skladu s SZO: formulacija problema, opredelitev nevarnosti, opredelitev nevarnosti, ocena izpostavljenosti in opredelitev tveganja.
- Kako izvesti strukturirano oceno tveganja.
- Postopek ugotavljanja nevarnosti in tveganja.
- Analiza tveganja za regulirane proizvode in zdravstveno varstvo rastlin.
- Kemična onesnaževala in analiza kemijskega tveganja (opredelitev nevarnosti, opredelitev nevarnosti, ocena izpostavljenosti in opredelitev tveganja pri oceni kemijskega tveganja, obvladovanje tveganja in obveščanje o tveganju).
- Analiza tveganja za zoonozo in zdravje živali s poudarkom na mikrobiološki analizi tveganja.
- Nova uredba o uradnem nadzoru in sistem hitrega obveščanja za živila in krmo (RASFF).
- Krizno upravljanje.
Udeleženci zastopajo osebje pristojnih organov, ki sodelujejo pri dejavnostih uradnega nadzora, in osebje kmetijskih ministrstev, odgovornih za razvoj politike varnosti hrane in izvozne zadeve.
Iz njihovega ozadja in poklicnega položaja bi moralo biti jasno, da je udeležba v dejavnosti usposabljanja ključni element za izboljšanje kompetenc.
| Zasedanje | Datum začetka | Končni datum | Mesto | Dežela |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12/06/2023 | 15/06/2023 | Skopje | Severna Makedonija |
| 2 | 16/06/2023 | 22/06/2023 | PAR es Salaama | Tanzanija |
| 3 | 13/11/2023 | 16/11/2023 | Abidžan | Slonokoščena obala |
| 4 | 11/12/2023 | 14/12/2023 | Rio de Janeiro | Brazilija |
| 5 | 22/01/2024 | 25/01/2024 | Panama | Panama |
| 6 | 04/03/2024 | 07/03/2024 | Kuala Lumpur |
Malezija |
| 7 | 13/05/2024 | 16/05/2023 | Tunis | Tunizija |
| 8 | 24/06/2024 | 27/06/2024 | Jackarta | Indonezija |
