Training workshop on the ImproRisk Model
Save the date: 17-18 October 2024
Within the New Focal Points’ Operational Framework with the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the State General Laboratory of Cyprus (SGL), is pleased to announce the implementation of the annual Training Workshop on the Open Access Risk Assessment Model: “ImproRisk”, that will take place in Larnaca, Cyprus, between 17th - 18th of October, 2023.
Objective: The training workshop aims to provide practical 'hands - on' training on the updated version of the ImproRisk Model, with regards to its applicability in chemical risk assessment. A combination of lectures and practical interactive case studies, mainly consisting of computational tasks, will enable participants to apply the gained knowledge to simple examples.
Key topics: Presentation of the new version of the ImproRisk Model with new features and functionalities, based on the feedback of the participants in last year’s “Follow-up Training Workshop on the ImproRisk Model”, the applied exposure assessment methodology and the model’s final output.
Eligible participants: Food Safety Experts or other Professionals with a basic knowledge in the area of exposure assessment organisations/institutes involved in food safety risk assessment activities. Attendance to the training workshop is only on an invite – basis.
Why to participate? The participants will be benefited through their physical attendance to the training since they will have the chance to use in practice the ImproRisk model, upload into the model real occurrence and food consumption data sets and see live the model’s capabilities, such as the exposure exploration at individual level and at each consumption occasion, the estimation of weighted exposure by applying weighting coefficients to adjust the sample for non-representativeness within the population etc. Moreover, upon the completion of the training workshop participants will continue to have access to the model in order to use it to perform dietary risk assessments by uploading their national data into the model.
Objective: The training workshop aims to provide practical 'hands - on' training on the updated version of the ImproRisk Model, with regards to its applicability in chemical risk assessment. A combination of lectures and practical interactive case studies, mainly consisting of computational tasks, will enable participants to apply the gained knowledge to simple examples.
Key topics: Presentation of the new version of the ImproRisk Model with new features and functionalities, based on the feedback of the participants in last year’s “Follow-up Training Workshop on the ImproRisk Model”, the applied exposure assessment methodology and the model’s final output.
Eligible participants: Food Safety Experts or other Professionals with a basic knowledge in the area of exposure assessment organisations/institutes involved in food safety risk assessment activities. Attendance to the training workshop is only on an invite – basis.
Why to participate? The participants will be benefited through their physical attendance to the training since they will have the chance to use in practice the ImproRisk model, upload into the model real occurrence and food consumption data sets and see live the model’s capabilities, such as the exposure exploration at individual level and at each consumption occasion, the estimation of weighted exposure by applying weighting coefficients to adjust the sample for non-representativeness within the population etc. Moreover, upon the completion of the training workshop participants will continue to have access to the model in order to use it to perform dietary risk assessments by uploading their national data into the model.