Dissemination plan for benefit-risk assessment of food

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Purpose

The dissemination plan for benefit-risk assessment of food aims to spread information about methods and tools for making better assessments about benefits and risks that relate to food consumption. Typically, these assessments are performed by or for food authorities or companies in the food sector. However, some assessments may be directed to general consumers to promote a healthy diet. The dissemination should be targeted to both those who make these assessments, and those who read the assessments.

A special focus in this plan is on web-based tools and methods that are applicable in Europe.

The key objective of dissemination is to ensure that the methods and tools developed in research projects will become widely known and used, and that they will be further developed by new research after the original projects have ended.

Background

There are several European projects that are developing methods for benefit-risk assessment of food. Beneris, Qalibra, and Brafo are jointly collaborating in this area. In addition, there are several other projects that are closely related although their focus is not on food but on environmental health in general. These projects include Intarese, Heimtsa, and 2-Fun.

Intarese is developing a toolbox for making environmental health impact assessments on the Internet. Heimtsa is collecting a background incidence database for essential background information used in assessments.

Dissemination plan

The dissemination about methods and tools developed for benefit-risk assessment divides into several parts that mutually strengthen each other towards the key objective. We will work so that the tools will

• be utilised in new projects as the basis for new development,
• be utilised in real policy situations to produce guidance for decision-making,
• be utilised in real policy situations outside the food sector, thus increasing the critical mass of users and developers,
• gain awareness among the potential users so that they can use the tools in new situations,
• gain awareness among stakeholders so that they can demand the use of the tools in new situations.

New projects

Bepraribean, Intarese, Heimtsa, Hiwate, Brafo

Real policy situations

Contacts to people who might use the tools. (Evira, EFSA)

Real policy situations outside the food sector

• Climate change policies on city-level, Copenhagen process
• Erityistilanteiden opas
• STM

Awareness among users

• Beneris staff now in the food administration of Finland
• Weekly contacts with the administration related to pollutants in food

Awareness among stakeholders

• Continuous contacts to new people who are interested in the topic or open assessments.
• Presentation in the Evira seminar