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Specification of data collection on animal diseases to increase the preparedness of the AHAW panel to answer future mandates ? CFP/EFSA/AHAW/2010/01

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23 November 2012


                 
         
         
                 
         Risk assessment is EFSA’s core activity. The lack of  quantitative data and standardized methodology to collect data for risk  assessment may limit the use of formal and structured quantitative risk  assessments and delay the production of accurate scientific opinions. The aim  of this project was to develop a methodological framework to identify data  needs in accordance with the risk questions and the relevant risk assessment  methods. A review of AHAW panel opinions in the area of animal health, adopted  between 2004 and 2010 (WP1) was conducted in order to identify and to  categorize the most recurrent risk questions, the suitable risk assessment methods  and data needs. Subsequently an inventory of the possible sources of required  data and an assessment of their availability and accessibility were performed  (WP2). Facts and metadata were distinguished from WP1 initial list of data  needs and a metadata model for facts collection and documentation was then  proposed (WP3). The outcomes and conclusions from the three first work packages  was used to suggest a structured approach to collect data (facts and metadata)  in regard to expected future risk questions. Based on four case studies related  to Echinococcus multilocularis, E.  granulosus, Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome and Venezuelan  Equine Encephalitis (WP4), we concluded that this approach could lead to more  efficient preparatory data collection, and therefore enable more rapid response  to new risk managers questions.
        
         
         Specification of data collection on animal diseases to increase the preparedness of the AHAW panel to answer future mandates – CFP/EFSA/AHAW/2010/01

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