Expert Elicitation to Estimate the Relative Risk of Food Safety Criteria Included in the Establishment-Based Risk Assessment Model for Canadian Hatcheries | Zendy

Ma Racicot | Zendy; Geneviève Comeau | Zendy; Alexandre B. Le Roux | Zendy; Sylvain Quessy | Zendy; Sunny Ng | Zendy; Teresa Cereno | Zendy; Daniel Venne | Zendy; Ghislain Hébert | Zendy; JeanPierre Vaillancourt | Zendy; Philippe Fravalo | Zendy; Rachel Ouckama | Zendy; Darko Mitevski | Zendy; Michele T. Guerin | Zendy; Agnes Agunos | Zendy; Leanne M. DeWinter | Zendy; Angela Catford | Zendy; MarieLou Gaucher | Zendy

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Expert Elicitation to Estimate the Relative Risk of Food Safety Criteria Included in the Establishment-Based Risk Assessment Model for Canadian Hatcheries

Author(s) -

Ma Racicot,

Geneviève Comeau,

Alexandre B. Le Roux,

Sylvain Quessy,

Sunny Ng,

Teresa Cereno,

Daniel Venne,

Ghislain Hébert,

JeanPierre Vaillancourt,

Philippe Fravalo,

Rachel Ouckama,

Darko Mitevski,

Michele T. Guerin,

Agnes Agunos,

Leanne M. DeWinter,

Angela Catford,

MarieLou Gaucher

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

foodborne pathogens and disease

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.833

H-Index - 69

eISSN - 1556-7125

pISSN - 1535-3141

DOI - 10.1089/fpd.2019.2784

Subject(s) - hatchery , risk assessment , food safety , respondent , relative risk , environmental health , business , biology , statistics , medicine , fishery , computer science , mathematics , food science , confidence interval , computer security , fish <actinopterygii> , political science , law

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is developing an Establishment-based Risk Assessment model for Hatcheries to allocate inspection resources according to the food safety risk associated with each hatchery falling under its jurisdiction. In a previous study, 29 factors contributing to the food safety risk of hatcheries were identified and grouped into three clusters (inherent risk, risk mitigation, and compliance) and assessment criteria were defined. The objective of the current study was to estimate the relative risk (RR) of these criteria. Two rounds of expert elicitations were conducted to allow 13 Canadian experts to estimate the RR of each criterion ( n = 96) based on its potential impact on human health, with a specific focus on Salmonella spp. This process also aimed to estimate the maximum increase or decrease in the overall food safety risk of a hatchery when considering multiple criteria belonging to a specific cluster and to assess the risk attribution of Salmonella spp. at the hatchery and bird-type levels. Results showed that the respondent profile had no influence on the importance given to a majority of criteria. Uniformity of answers among experts improved from the first to the second round. Overall, 62.5%, 32.3%, and 5.2% of the criteria were attributed to an RR that was less than 2, between 2 and 3, and greater than 3, respectively. Mixing eggs from different supply flocks when placed into the same hatching unit, hatching multiple species, and importing eggs with unknown quality status were identified as having the highest contribution to a hatchery's inherent risk. Requiring information on the foodborne pathogen status of supplying flocks and the occurrence of regulatory enforcement actions were the most impactful risk mitigation and compliance factors, respectively. The median RR value assigned to each criterion and cluster will be used to build this new model.

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