ANNUAL REPORT 2022 | 27 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 the framework of 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 substantially contributed to EFSA actions, within the context of Dietary Risk Assessment in particular. More specifically the SGL: a) using its “ImproRisk” deterministic model for dietary risk exposure of the population at individual level, conducted dietary risk assessment of the Cypriot population (adolescents) exposure to chemicals, and b) contributed to the “Better Training for Safer Food (BTSF)” of the EU on “Chemical Risk Assessment” issues. In 2022, SGL proceeded to the upgrade of ImproRisk into an online model (Shiny web application), which carries out risk assessment using EFSA’s FoodEx2 food classification system. The upgraded model allows the utilisation of the Food Consumption Data of Cypriots, in order to perform a more harmonised and accurate exposure assessment of food contaminants, following the approaches of EFSA and other Member States regarding risk assessment. Within 2022, the Risk Assessment Unit of SGL prepared a working plan for carrying out the dietary exposure assessment of different chemical hazards using the upgraded risk assessment tool “ImproRisk”. Since 2004, the SGL has been conducting dietary exposure assessment of the population to pesticides for acute risk. In 2022, exposure assessment for 31 cases of legal violations has been performed using EFSA’s deterministic model Primo v 3.1. In most of the cases, the exposure of the population was below the acute health-based reference value.
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