- ID (Added: 16-Aug-2024)
- 257
- Source
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Type
- Website
- Title
- Report Regional Training on Enhancing Risk Communication in Food Safety (Website)
- Description
- "Report on the three-day regional training on Enhancing Risk Communication in Food Safety that was organized by the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific on 13-15 May 2015. The training included technical interactive sessions consisting of key conceptual and factual lectures followed by hands-on individual or group exercises enabling the participants to acquire new or advanced knowledge, and practical skills on good risk communication principles and practices in emerging and non-emerging settings applicable to food safety. The main topics of case-studies, drafted by each country prior to the workshop, were introduced early in the workshop, and discussed at the end of the workshop, allowing the participants to reflect on the knowledge accumulated throughout the workshop, apply new skills and report/exchange key lessons-learned. The former were captured as key recommendations on how to strengthen risk communication capacity at the country and regional levels, and are reported below. A role play exercise was organised using hypothetical potential emerging food safety signal, which becomes over time major public heath event. The focus of exercise was on demonstrating complexity of challenges when communicating food safety problems in presence of uncertainty, new information, and under serious media pressures. The participants reviewed an example of rapid risk communication assessment tool, which could be applied at the organizational or country level, primarily under emergency setting, and discussed opportunities to potentially pre-test and adapt such tool, or share similar tools among countries. The use or adoption of similar tool could allow an organisation or country to assess their food safety risk communication capability and identify strengths and capacity building needs (based on weaknesses)."
- Format
- Website
- Applies to
- Organisms: Organism not specified
- Foods: Food type not specified
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