CAC/GL 62-2007 Working Principles for Risk Analysis for Food Safety for Application by Governments
SCOPE
1. The Working Principles for Risk Analysis for Food Safety for Application by Governments are intended to provide guidance to national governments for risk assessment, risk management and risk communication with regard to food related risks to human health.
GENERAL ASPECTS
2. The overall objective of risk analysis applied to food safety is to ensure human health protection.
3. These principles apply equally to issues of national food control and food trade situations and should be applied consistently and in a non discriminatory manner.
4. To the extent possible, the application of risk analysis should be established as an integral part of a national food safety system.1
5. Implementation of risk management decisions at the national level should be supported by an adequately functioning food control system/program.
6. Risk analysis should be:
• applied consistently;
• open, transparent and documented; and
• evaluated and reviewed as appropriate in the light of newly generated scientific data.
