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Risk-benefit in food safety and nutrition - outcome of the 2019 Parma Summer School
2021
Risk-benefit assessment is the comparison of the risk of a situation to its related benefits, i.e. a comparison of scenarios estimating the overall health impact. The risk–benefit analysis paradigm mirrors the classical risk analysis one: risk–benefit assessment goes hand-in-hand with risk–benefit management and risk–benefit communication. The various health effects associated with food consumption, together with the increasing demand for advice on healthy and safe diets, have led to the development of different research disciplines in food safety and nutrition. In this sense, there is a clear need for a holistic approach, including and comparing all of the relevant health risks and benefit…
Analysis of nitrite and nitrate in foodstuffs-Method development, ocurrence, regulation, metrological aspects and exposure
2017
La presencia y la inocuidad de los nitritos y nitratos son un tema controvertido. El nitrito es un aditivo autorizado considerado como un ingrediente importante para la preservación de productos cárnicos. Nitrato es un componente natural de la dieta humana que, sin embargo, despierta preocupación por su supuesta potencial nocividad relacionada con cianosis, carcinogénesis y contaminación ambiental. Por lo tanto, determinaciones confiables de nitrito/nitrato son necesarias por tres razones principales: a) vigilar el cumplimiento de las regulaciones actuales sobre aditivos y contaminantes, b) determinar el contenido de nitrito/nitrato in alimentos, dietas y agua potables y c) estudiar el comp…