The food safety community is generating a variety of scientific knowledge (e.g. scientific publications, experimental data and mathematical models) and resources (databases and software tools for model generation and application). However, the access to this knowledge and the exchange of information between databases and software tools are currently difficult and time consuming. Therefore, three European institutions specialized in food safety risk assessment (ANSES, BfR and DTU Food) initiated a joint project to establish new community resources facilitating the efficient knowledge integration and exchange into and between IT-based applications and resources. The envisaged “Risk Assessment Modelling and Knowledge Integration Platforms” (RAKIP) will be based on harmonized data formats and consistent rules for knowledge annotation. The feasibility of this concept will be exemplified through an RAKIP Web Portal allowing users to access and download risk assessment models, modules thereof and related data in a harmonized file format. These files can then be imported and executed by software tools supporting the proposed harmonized file format. The RAKIP Web Portal therefore also contains supporting resources needed for the harmonized description and exchange of knowledge.
Targeted end users
The RAKIP solutions are designed to support the whole risk assessment community including national and international risk assessment agencies, business operators and academic institutions. Modellers, risk assessors and risk managers will benefit most from the RAKIP portal. However other users like research scientists can also make use of the RAKIP resources, e.g. share their experimental data or apply improved modelling tools in the future.
In this sense, the end-users will find in the RAKIP Web Portal a web-based model repository that can be freely assessed and searched, and where models can be shared, searched, downloaded and executed. Modellers can contribute their models to the repository by uploading their models in the harmonized format. The RAKIP Web Portal is however not primarily intended to be a new “press-the-button” model simulation software. It will be improved continuously such that experts and non-experts can make use of it.
Events
RAKIP Initiative @ 12th International Conference on Predictive Modelling in Food (ICPMF12)
Workshop: Exploiting the power of the harmonized knowledge exchange format FSKX
(13.06.2023, 14:00 – 17:00, on-site event in Sapporo, Japan for attendees of the ICPMF12)
Programme
Towards Interoperable One Health Model Repositories – a Side Event of the ONE Conference 2022 by RAKIP Initiative
(23.06.2022, lunchtime CEST in Brussels, Belgium, hybrid event)
On-site and online registration, click here
Programme
Publications
Filter M., Nauta M., Pires S. M., Guillier L., Buschhardt T. (2022).
Towards efficient use of data, models and tools in food microbiology.
Current Opinion in Food Science, 2022.
doi: 10.1016/j.cofs.2022.100834
Schüler, T., et al. (2021).
Extension of the content, functionality and usability of the online FSK‐Web model repository.
EFSA Supporting Publications, 2021. 18(12).
doi: 10.2903/sp.efsa.2021.EN-7063
Filter M., Sundermann E. M., Mesa-Varona O., Buschhardt T., Lopez de Abechuco E., Georgiadis M. (2020).
Minimum Information Required to Annotate Food Safety Risk Assessment Models (MIRARAM).
Food Research International 2020, 139:109952.
doi: 10.1016/j.foodres.2020.109952
Filter M., Plaza Rodríguez C., Ungaretti Haberbeck L., Swaid A., Georgiadis S., Valentin L., Günther T., Buschhardt T., de Alba Aparicio M., Mesa Varona O., et al. (2019).
Knowledge Plattform RAKIP. Feed and food safety in times of global production and trade.
In book: Feed and food safety in times of global production and trade (pp.272-278)
Publisher: Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung, 2019. vol 4/2019.
Lopez de Abechuco E., Mesa Varona O., Valentin L., de Alba Aparicio M., Schüler T., Günter T., Swaid A., Buschhardt T., Filter M. (2019).
Establishment of a prototypic Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (QMRA) food and feed safety model repository.
EFSA Supporting Publications 2019, 16.
doi: 10.2903/sp.efsa.2019.EN-1701
de Alba Aparicio M., Buschhardt T., Swaid A., Valentin L., Mesa-Varona O., Günther T., Plaza-Rodriguez C., Filter M. (2018).
FSK-Lab – An open source food safety model integration tool.
Microbial Risk Analysis 2018, 10:13-19.
doi: 10.1016/j.mran.2018.09.001
Plaza-Rodríguez C, Haberbeck LU, Desvignes V, Dalgaard P, Sanaa M, Nauta M, Filter M, Guillier L (2018).
Towards transparent and consistent exchange of knowledge for improved microbiological food safety.
Current Opinion in Food Science 2018, 19:129-137.
doi: 10.1016/j.cofs.2017.12.002
Haberbeck L. U., Plaza-Rodríguez C., Desvignes V., Dalgaard P., Sanaa M., Guillier L., Nauta M., Filter M. (2018).
Harmonized terms, concepts and metadata for microbiological risk assessment models: The basis for knowledge integration and exchange.
Microbial Risk Analysis 2018, 10:3-12.
doi: 10.1016/j.mran.2018.06.001
Plaza-Rodríguez, C., Haberbeck, L.U., Desvignes, V., Dalgaard, P., Sanaa, M., Nauta, M., Filter, M., Guillier, L., (2018).
Towards transparent and consistent exchange of knowledge for improved microbiological food safety.
Current Opinion in Food Science 2018, 19:129–137.
doi: 10.1016/j.cofs.2017.12.002
Plaza-Rodríguez C., Thöns C., Falenski A., Weiser A. A., Appel B., Käsbohrer A., et al. (2015)
A Strategy to Establish Food Safety Model Repositories.
International Journal of Food Microbiology. 2015, 204: 81–90.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2015.03.010