Abstract:

Risk assessment has received recognition and applications in the field of agro-products and food safety in the early 1990s. In this paper, current situations and advances about EU consumer dietary exposure risk assessment were summed up, involving the principle, foundation, measures and mathematical modeling of consumer dietary exposure risk assessment. Some information in the course of developing consumer dietary exposure risk assessment were generalized , such as, the data collection and statistic methods of chemical substance residue concentration, food consumption, body weight and toxicological reference value. POCER model in Belgium and Consumer model in UK that were used for assessing consumer dietary exposure risk were introduced. Considering the current research advances of consumer dietary exposure risk assessment in China, the feasibility of two assessment models mentioned above was summarized. Research achievements of EU relating to consumer dietary exposure risk assessment are provided with significant instruction meanings to future research carried on in China.

Key words: EU (European Union), dietary exposure, risk assessment, principle, foundation, mathematical modeling, software