Biological Hazards
The Panel on Biological Hazards assesses issues on microbiological food hygiene, contamination of food by human pathogen microorganisms and transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. The Panel also assesses the development of resistance against antimicrobials and disinfectants including transmission of resistance genes to pathogenic microorganisms.
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Members
Taran Skjerdal (chair)
Georg Kapperud
Kjetil Klaveness Mellby
Lucy Robertson
Marina Elisabeth Aspholm
Solveig Jore
Trond Møretrø
Truls Nesbakken
Assessing risk means assessing how likely it is that a hazard we know leads to injury. In addition, we need to assess how serious the injury is.
VKM is appointed by the Ministry of Health and Care Services. VKM is organized as an independent body, fulfilling the national requirement for independent, transparent and open scientific risk assessments.
Risk assessments in VKM follow current international standards and methodology in the respective fields of responsibility for VKMs panels.
The Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food and Environment
