State General Laboratory Annual Report 2019

36 State General laboratory Annual Report 2019 Dietary risk assessment The SGL carries out risk assessment for the dietary exposure of the Cyprus population to chemical substances (Regulation No. 178/2002), within its participation in the National Food Safety Council. The Risk Assessment capacity is continuously enhanced with SGL’s participation in EFSA’s Advisory Forum, Focal Point and EFSA’s Networks. The SGL has developed its own risk assessment model called "ImproRisk" since 2014, by which it can perform accurate food risk assessments using: (a) the diachronic chemical occurrence data collected at the SGL, in combination with b) food consumption data of the Cypriot population, produced by the "National Dietary Survey of the Cyprus Population " in the context of the research project «EU MENU» of EFSA. From 2008 to 2019, the SGL, based on its laboratory data collected over the years on contaminants in food, has conducted dietary exposure assessment of the Cyprus population (adolescents), to lead, cadmium, mercury, nitrates, acrylamide, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and aflatoxin B1. The results were satisfactory and are consistent with the respective EFSA risk assessments for Cyprus. Ε p,i bw i A p Σ a= 1 Q i,a C p,a = Dietary Exposure = consumption χ concentration levels National Dietary Survey Consumed quantity of a food α Body weight National monitoring programmes of chemical substances Concentrationof a chemical p in a food α Exposure of an individual i to a chemical p :