Risk assessment

Risk ranking, risk profiling, and risk assessments for both chemical and microbiological hazards help reduce the incidence of foodborne illness.

  • A cut open burger with a meat pattie.

  • Overview

    Use this introduction to MPI's risk assessment processes to understand the background to risk ranking, risk profiling, and risk assessments. If you're new, start here.

  • Risk ranking

    Find out about MPI's ranking or comparitive assessment method for both chemical and microbiological hazards, and get access to the relevant documents.

  • Risk profiles

    Learn about the risk profiles relevant to a food/hazard combination that are widely used by industry to manage food safety controls, and find a list of the risk profiles prepared for MPI.

  • Quantitative & qualitative risk assessments

    Find out about assessment of the probability and severity of illness due to consumption of a contaminated food, and get access to a range of risk assessments prepared by MPI.

  • What's new

    Find important updates relevant to Food science & research.

Quick links

new

What's new

more

Tools: