Dietary exposure assessment

Why Dietary Exposure Assessment?

Dietary Exposure Assessment is essential for evaluating the potential intake of chemicals, additives, or novel ingredients present in food and how they might affect different population groups. This analysis is crucial for:

• Supporting the safety assessment of food and feed products.
• Informing regulatory submissions and risk management decisions.
• Ensuring products comply with established safety thresholds.

DietEx and FEIM, developed by EFSA, are sophisticated tools designed for the accurate assessment of dietary exposure to substances from food consumption. Their features include:

• The ability to model chronic dietary exposure for substances used across multiple food manufacturing processes.
• Integration with EFSA’s Comprehensive European Food Consumption Database for precise exposure estimates across various European countries, age groups, and special populations

• Flexibility to select appropriate food categories and use levels to accurately reflect your product’s applications and consumption patterns

EFSA has developed a variety of different tools which may all be used for different purposes. Biosafe’s experts will select the appropriate tools for your product.

Biosafe’s Dietary Exposure Assessment service incorporates these key steps:

1. Initial consultation: Understanding your product and the substances requiring analysis.
2. Data collection: Using the chosen tools to gather relevant food consumption data tailored to your product’s market.
3. Exposure assessment: Calculating the dietary exposure levels of your product’s substances across different demographic groups.
4. Risk characterisation: Interpreting the results to assess the risk levels associated with the dietary exposure to your product.
5. Regulatory guidance: Providing insights and recommendations based on the analysis to support regulatory submissions and compliance.