在循环食品系统中评估食品安全的框架
H J van der Fels-Klerx1, E D van Asselt2, B Berendsen2
1Wageningen Food Safety Research, Wageningen, Netherlands. ine.vanderfels@wur.nl.
NPJ science of food
|June 19, 2024
概括
为了减少食物浪费,循环食品系统重新利用生产侧流. 一个新的框架评估了潜在的食品安全危害,优先考虑基于循环经济中的持久性和转移的风险.
科学领域:
- 食品科学与技术 食品科学与技术
- 食品安全 食品安全
- 循环经济是一个循环经济.
背景情况:
- 增加料和食品生产侧流的再利用旨在尽量减少食物浪费,并促进农业系统的循环.
- 这些侧流在循环食品系统中的再利用可能会引发潜在的食品安全问题,原因是污染物积累.
- 现有的食品安全评估可能无法完全解决污染物转移和在循环食品供应链中的持续存在的复杂性.
研究的目的:
- 制定和提出一个框架,以评估和优先考虑与食品供应链循环转型相关的食品安全风险.
- 提供一种系统的方法来识别和评估从侧流的再利用中产生的对人类健康的风险.
- 支持实施预防性行动,以减轻循环食品系统中的食品安全问题.
主要方法:
- 制定一个三步框架: 1. 描述循环性导致的供应链变化, 2. 描述循环性导致的供应链变化. 识别潜在的食品安全危害,以及3. 优先考虑已识别的危险.
- 确定危害的优先级包括评估它们在最终食品中的存在及其对人类健康的影响.
- 包括危害在环境中的持久性和可能转移到食品中的危害作为关键评估要素.
- 通过三个不同的案例研究来验证框架.
主要成果:
- 开发的框架有效地允许在循环食品系统中优先考虑食品安全危害.
- 案例研究结果表明,循环性主要影响危险的存在,而不是其固有的健康影响.
- 食品安全危害的持续性和环境转移是决定其在循环系统中的风险水平的关键因素.
结论:
- 拟议的框架在增加食品生产循环性的背景下,为管理食品安全提供了一种强有力的方法.
- 实施这一框架可以帮助预防与再利用侧流有关的人类健康风险.
- 专注于危害的持久性和转移对于在不断发展的循环食品供应链中确保食品安全至关重要.
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