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Evidence (‘data’) is at the heart of EFSA's 2020 Strategy and is addressed in three of its operational objectives: (1) adopt an open data approach, (2) improve data interoperability to facilitate data exchange, and (3) migrate towards structured scientific data. As the generation and availability of data have increased exponentially in the last decade, potentially providing a much larger evidence base for risk assessments, it is envisaged that the acquisition and management of evidence to support future food safety risk assessments will be a dominant feature of EFSA's future strategy. During the breakout session on ‘Managing evidence’ of EFSA's third Scientific Conference ‘Science, Food, Society’, current challenges and future developments were discussed in evidence management applied to food safety risk assessment, accounting for the increased volume of evidence available as well as the increased IT capabilities to access and analyse it. This paper reports on presentations given and discussions held during the session, which were centred around the following three main topics: (1) (big) data availability and (big) data connection, (2) problem formulation and (3) evidence integration.
- Food Safety, Evidence Based Policy, Big Data, Public Health, Regulation, Blockchain, Omics, risk assessment, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Good Governance, Consumer Product Safety, supply chain simulation, food science, Informatics, Data Science, Real world evidence, Food Industry
18/09/18 → 21/09/18
Parma, Italy
Event: Conference
ID: 101488984