This meeting has been used to conclude the discussion on the flowchart and to discuss the need to further work: organising a public consultation, collecting more examples and methods, identifying knowledge gaps, etc. The flowchart is available in the Knowledge base section of the website.
The above-mentioned meeting will focus on the website developments. The website contains:
main definitions and a framework for risk assessment of non-food consumer products;
a knowledge base for others who aim at producing practical methods of risk assessment;
an inventory of the principles underlying risk assessment, in particular for product design and post market monitoring;
guidelines for producers, importers, retailers, enforcers and consumer organisations on how to apply these principles in practice and what type of information can be used in each step.
The working group has also made a first inventory of practical tools that are often used in risk assessment, such as risk matrices. This is a living document which includes remarks based on practical experience with several of the methods.
The website is currently available at: http://raguide.ram.com/index2.htm/. It is planned that the website will be integrated into the EuroSafe website later this year.
