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Overview of the Interagency Risk Assessment Consortium

Overview of the Interagency Risk Assessment Consortium. Isabel Walls, Ph.D. National Program Leader, Epidemiology of Food Safety USDA NIFA Chair, IRAC Technical Committee. Overview. Purpose Goals Background Membership Recent accomplishments Current projects. Purpose.

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Overview of the Interagency Risk Assessment Consortium

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  1. Overview of the Interagency Risk Assessment Consortium Isabel Walls, Ph.D. National Program Leader, Epidemiology of Food Safety USDA NIFA Chair, IRAC Technical Committee

  2. Overview • Purpose • Goals • Background • Membership • Recent accomplishments • Current projects

  3. Purpose • To provide a forum for enhanced communication and coordination among federal agencies that develop and utilize food safety risk assessments

  4. Goals • Improve risk assessment research • Enhance the development and use of risk assessment models and tools • Serve as a forum to communicate about risk assessment and related research issues including the use of quantitative risk assessment in decision making

  5. Background • Established in 1998 in response to the Presidential Executive Order 13100 and President’s Food Safety Council • Co-chaired by FDA and FSIS • Charter established to provide the basis for collaboration among the members of the IRAC • Each year the IRAC creates a plan of activities to meet the overall goals • IRAC meets quarterly to develop new projects and activities, and review progress on existing projects

  6. Membership • All federal agencies with food safety risk analysis responsibilities are invited to participate • The IRAC technical representative from each agency serves as its agency’s scientific delegate • The IRAC policy representative from each agency serves as a member of the IRAC Policy Council

  7. Interagency Risk Assessment Consortium Member Agencies (HHS) • Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, FDA • National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC • National Center for Toxicological Research, FDA • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH • Center for Veterinary Medicine, FDA • National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, CDC

  8. Interagency Risk Assessment Consortium Member Agencies (USDA) • Food Safety and Inspection Service • National Institute of Food and Agriculture • Agricultural Research Service • Food and Nutrition Service • Economic Research Service • Office of Risk Assessment and Cost Benefit Analysis, • Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service • Office of the Chief Economist • National Agricultural Statistics Service • Agricultural Marketing Service

  9. Interagency Risk Assessment Consortium Member Agencies • Office of Pesticide Programs, EPA • Office of Water, EPA • Office of Research and Development, EPA • US Army Public Health Command, DOD • Veterinary Services Activity, OTSG, DOD • US Army Institute of Public Health, DOD • National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA • Department of Homeland Security

  10. Recent accomplishments: • Workshop/ Report on Defining Susceptible Populations in Food Safety Risk Assessment • Workshop on Risk- Based Inspection • Workshop/ Report on Improving Dose –Response for Listeria monocytogenes • Workshop on Chemical Food Safety Risk Assessment • Symposium at IAFP “Making a Difference: Data Collection for Risk Assessments through Innovative Approaches”

  11. Current projects • Risk Assessment as a Method for Determining Attribution to Foodborne Illness • Clarification of the Various Approaches for Assessing Risk

  12. Presentations at IRAC meetings • NIOSH Risk Assessments and Occupational Exposure Limit Developments, Frank Hearl, NIOSH • One Health Initiative, Joe Annelli, APHIS/ Pat Basu, FSIS • NOAA Fisheries’ On-going Efforts in Response to the Gulf Oil Spill, by Spencer Garrett, NOAA National Seafood Inspection Laboratory/ Office of Sustainable Fisheries • Prediction of Salmonella Serotypes Based on PFGE Patterns and NCTR Foodborne Pathogen Knowledgebase, by Wen Zou, NCTR • Risk Prioritization at FDA, by David Oryang from CFSAN • CDC Estimates of Foodborne Illness Acquired in the United States, Elaine Scallan, Colorado School of Public Health and Mike Hoekstra from CDC

  13. IRAC • For more information see our website • www.foodrisk.org/irac • Outgoing technical chair: Isabel Walls iwalls@nifa.usda.gov • Incoming technical chair: Yuhuan Chen yuhuan.chen@fda.hhs.gov • Policy chairs: Sherri Dennis, FDA and Kerry Dearfield, FSIS

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