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Applicability and feasibility of systematic review for performing evidence-based risk assessment in food and feed safety

Applicability and feasibility of systematic review for performing evidence-based risk assessment in food and feed safety
Applicability and feasibility of systematic review for performing evidence-based risk assessment in food and feed safety
Food and feed safety risk assessment uses multi-parameter models to evaluate the likelihood of adverse events associated with exposure to hazards in human health, plant health, animal health, animal welfare, and the environment. Systematic review and meta-analysis are established methods for answering questions in health care, and can be implemented to minimize biases in food and feed safety risk assessment. However, no methodological frameworks exist for refining risk assessment multi-parameter models into questions suitable for systematic review, and use of meta-analysis to estimate all parameters required by a risk model may not be always feasible. This paper describes novel approaches for determining question suitability and for prioritizing questions for systematic review in this area. Risk assessment questions that aim to estimate a parameter are likely to be suitable for systematic review. Such questions can be structured by their "key elements" [e.g., for intervention questions, the population(s), intervention(s), comparator(s), and outcome(s)]. Prioritization of questions to be addressed by systematic review relies on the likely impact and related uncertainty of individual parameters in the risk model. This approach to planning and prioritizing systematic review seems to have useful implications for producing evidence-based food and feed safety risk assessment.
evidence synthesis, meta-analysis, risk model, transparency, uncertainty
1040-8398
1026-1034
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Greiner, M.
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Alfonso, A.
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Glanville, J.
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O'Connor, A.M.
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Pullin, A.S.
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Rajić, A.
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Aiassa, E., Higgins, J.P., Frampton, Geoff, Greiner, M., Alfonso, A., Amzal, B., Deeks, J., Dorne, J.L., Glanville, J., Lövei, G.L., Nienstedt, K., O'Connor, A.M., Pullin, A.S., Rajić, A. and Verloo, D. (2014) Applicability and feasibility of systematic review for performing evidence-based risk assessment in food and feed safety. Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 55 (7), 1026-1034. (doi:10.1080/10408398.2013.769933). (PMID:25191830)

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Food and feed safety risk assessment uses multi-parameter models to evaluate the likelihood of adverse events associated with exposure to hazards in human health, plant health, animal health, animal welfare, and the environment. Systematic review and meta-analysis are established methods for answering questions in health care, and can be implemented to minimize biases in food and feed safety risk assessment. However, no methodological frameworks exist for refining risk assessment multi-parameter models into questions suitable for systematic review, and use of meta-analysis to estimate all parameters required by a risk model may not be always feasible. This paper describes novel approaches for determining question suitability and for prioritizing questions for systematic review in this area. Risk assessment questions that aim to estimate a parameter are likely to be suitable for systematic review. Such questions can be structured by their "key elements" [e.g., for intervention questions, the population(s), intervention(s), comparator(s), and outcome(s)]. Prioritization of questions to be addressed by systematic review relies on the likely impact and related uncertainty of individual parameters in the risk model. This approach to planning and prioritizing systematic review seems to have useful implications for producing evidence-based food and feed safety risk assessment.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 5 August 2014
Keywords: evidence synthesis, meta-analysis, risk model, transparency, uncertainty
Organisations: Faculty of Medicine

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Local EPrints ID: 383599
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/383599
ISSN: 1040-8398
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ORCID for Geoff Frampton: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2005-0497

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Author: E. Aiassa
Author: J.P. Higgins
Author: Geoff Frampton ORCID iD
Author: M. Greiner
Author: A. Alfonso
Author: B. Amzal
Author: J. Deeks
Author: J.L. Dorne
Author: J. Glanville
Author: G.L. Lövei
Author: K. Nienstedt
Author: A.M. O'Connor
Author: A.S. Pullin
Author: A. Rajić
Author: D. Verloo

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