The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has updated its 2010 guidance on the risk-benefit assessment (RBA) of foods. The update addresses methodological developments and regulatory needs. While it retains the stepwise RBA approach, it provides additional methods for complex assessments, such as multiple chemical hazards and all relevant health effects impacting different population subgroups. The updated guidance document includes approaches for systematic identification, prioritisation, and selection of hazardous and beneficial food components. It also offers updates relevant to characterising adverse and beneficial effects, such as measures of effect size and dose-response modelling. The guidance document expands options for characterising risks and benefits, incorporating variability, uncertainty, severity categorisation, and ranking of different (beneficial or adverse) effects.
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