Terms of reference WHO Collaborating Centre on Chemical Food Safety

Together with WHO, RIVM has drawn up an action plan for the WHO Collaborating Centre on Chemical Food Safety

Terms of Reference (ToR)

Improvement of the Global Environment Monitoring System (GEMS) and the Chronic Individual FOod COnsumption summary statistics (CIFOCOss) databasesCoordination of the collection of worldwide individual food consumption data for the GEMS/Food programme; analysis of the data in collaboration with WHO and development of a format for a food consumption database. More on our activities regarding food consumption data and maintenance.
Improvement of risk assessment methods used by WHO for food risk assessment by joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) and Joint Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR). More on our activities regarding probabilistic exposure modelling and BMD modelling.
Supporting the use of Total Diet Studies for food safety risk assessment at international level.