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- What are the epidemiological pathways a pathogen from animal source can be transferred to humans?
- What is the risk to public health due to increasing antimicrobial resistance?
- What is the acceptable level of risk for additives in food?
- What are the emerging food safety issues and how to deal with them?
The systems of producing food and beverages for human consumption are fraught with numerous operational challenges and risks. These questions and many more related to food and beverage manufacturing can be supported using quantitative risk analysis and optimization techniques.
In addition to operational challenges, the food and beverage industry has the additional concern of food safety and animal health. In particular, hazards such as microbial risks, contamination risks and disease risks and well as regulatory requirements must be addressed. Vose Consulting has extensive expertise in microbial risk analysis and antimicrobial risk analysis and our experts are recognized worldwide leaders in the area of microbial and antimicrobial risk analysis.
Microbial risk analysis attempts to determine the risks associated with microbial contamination of food and food products. Vose Consulting not only has made important contributions to the development of this field (for example we have led the development of WHO international guidelines), but also use microbial risk analysis techniques in a wide range of projects (see examples here). Because of our international reputation in microbial risk analysis, we are also often asked to give presentations, appear as expert witnesses, and review microbial risk assessments.
Resistance of microbes against antimicrobials is a global public health concern. Antimicrobial risk analysis attempts so estimate the role that antimicrobials that are administered to animals, play in the risks of antimicrobial resistance in humans. Vose Consulting has led the development of the OIE international guidelines for antimicrobial risk analyses. In addition, Vose Consulting has played a crucial role in an important antimicrobial risk analysis as outlined here, and has often spoken on the topic.
Given we are an independent consulting company, we have successfully completed projects in both, the private and public sector, which gives us a unique vision of the issues that affect the world of Food Safety.
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Some of the most advanced and exciting risk analysis techniques can be applied to quantify, prevent and control different food-borne risks. Vose Consulting experts are recognized world wide leaders in the area of microbial and antimicrobial risk analysis.
Microbial risk analysis risk attempts to determine the risks associated with microbial contamination of food and food products. Vose Consulting not only has made important contributions to the development of this field (for example we have led the development of WHO international guidelines), but also use microbial risk analysis techniques in a wide range of projects (see examples here). Because of our international reputation in microbial risk analysis, we are also often asked to give presentations, appear as expert witnesses, and review microbial risk assessments.
Resistance of microbes against antimicrobials is a global public health concern. Antimicrobial risk analysis attempts so estimate the role that antimicrobials that are administered to animals, play in the risks of antimicrobial resistance in humans. Vose Consulting has led the development of the OIE international guidelines for antimicrobial risk analyses. In addition, Vose Consulting has played a crucial role in an important antimicrobial risk analysis as outlined here, and has often spoken on the topic.
Given we are an independent consulting company, we have successfully completed projects in both, the private and public sector, which gives us a unique vision of the issues that affect the world of Food Safety.
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At Vose Consulting we believe in partnering relationships with our clients: that is, we strive to structure our clients' use of our time to maximize their benefit. To that end we prefer to work, wherever possible, alongside the client, demonstrating and teaching as we go the methods we use and sharing as much of the work as possible with the clients' personnel. This maximizes the transfer of knowledge, so that the client is better able to understand our work, and more capable of doing future projects by themselves. We aim for long-term relationships with our clients. To view the full list of our clients in this application, please follow the link at the end of the list “View All Clients”.
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- Department of Agriculture and Food, Australia
- Groupe Danone, France
- International Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics, Australia
- Princeton University, USA
- US FDA, Washington DC, USA
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Problem Given concerns about human risk from antibiotic-resistant bacteria from using antibiotics in animals, the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) was faced with the question of whether to continue to allow use of fluoroquinolones in poultry.
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“FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine has used Vose Consulting’s services repeatedly over the last several years for providing risk assessment and modeling courses to our scientists, antimicrobial resistance risk assessments, presenting the data and models to the animal pharmaceutical industry and the public, serving as an expert witness in a court case and reviewing other expert witness testimony, and helping the Center develop a scientifically defensible approach to regulating antimicrobials used in food animals considering resistance concerns. Perhaps most valuable to FDA was David's contribution as leading a team of lawyers and scientists in support of the Center's efforts to remove approval for an antimicrobial used in food animals. David's unique value in the very broad field of biostatistics and risk assessment is his ability to explain highly technical concepts so that nonscientists can not only understand the issues but engage in interpretative discussions. FDA honored David with the Commissioner's Special Citation award, the highest award given to persons outside the FDA.”
Linda Tollefson, DVM, MPH
Assistant Commissioner for Science
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