Ultra-sensitive food safety tests may drive food waste and unavailability with limited public health benefit, according to a Frontiers in Science lead article.
Hear from the article authors—Prof Martin Wiedmann, Prof Sophia Johler, and Sriya Sunil—as they argue that food systems would be more sustainable if hazard-based assessments were replaced with more flexible risk-based approaches. Their new article outlines how formal trade-off risk assessments can help align food safety policies with sustainability goals.
Join the authors at our Frontiers in Science Deep Dive webinar on 30 April 2026, 16:00–17:30 CEST, as they discuss how advanced modeling tools—such as the Monte Carlo quantitative microbial risk assessments (MC-QMRAs), geographic information system (GIS) models, and AI-driven predictive tools—can inform smarter, more transparent food safety decisions.
Balancing food safety and sustainability: trade-off risk assessments and predictive modeling | 30 April 2026 | Register
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