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[Meriem2014]

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Question: It is often said zero risk or 100% safety is unachievable in practice. Discuss the above statement in relation to food safety and control?

[Charles.C]

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Question: It is often said zero risk or 100% safety is unachievable in practice. Discuss the above statement in relation to food safety and control?

 

Dear Meriem,

 

Welcome to the forum !

 

Perhaps you first need to define 100% safety ?

 

I can add in advance that yr quotation is one of the axioms of HACCP.

 

It is possibly analogous to the observation that the probability of achieving a specific point on a continuous probability curve is zero, ie Life is a distribution.

 

Rgds / Charles.C

[Meriem2014]

Thank you Charles, can you please explain the statement in a little bit more details to make it more clear, and if you don't mind to give your opinion by example. I will be very grateful for anyone can make it more clear for me .
Many thanks

[Charles.C]

Dear Meriem,

 

AFAIK, there is only one way to (theoretically) guarantee that X gram of food is 100% "safe".

The method involves sampling / testing 100% of X gram of food.

 

I'm not sure if this answers yr intended query or not ?

 

Rgds / Charles.C

[Mike Green]

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Question: It is often said zero risk or 100% safety is unachievable in practice. Discuss the above statement in relation to food safety and control?

 IMO -for 100% food safety-it 's all about how you define it- (and at what point you decide to measure it!)   no complaints/no safety-based recalls could (notionally at least) = 100% safe

 

as for 'zero risk' IMO- not possible, anywhere, anyway, anyhow!

 

Regards

 

Mike