o:192 Drivers, opportunities, and challenges of the European risk-based meat safety assurance system en The traditional meat safety system has significantly contributed to public health protection throughout the last century. However, it has been recognised that this system suffers many flaws – the main being its limited ability to control the currently most important meat-borne hazards. The European Food Safety Authority evaluated meat inspection in the public health context, prioritised meat-borne hazards and proposed a generic framework for a new, risk-based meat safety assurance system. The proposed system aims to combine a range of preventive and control measures, applied at farms and abattoirs and integrated longitudinally, where official meat inspection is incorporated with producers’ food safety management systems into a coherent whole. The modernisation process has recently started as a direct result of changes to relevant legislation in the European Union. Many challenges have been experienced while many opportunities are foreseen. More focus on targeted and risk-based inspection along the supply chain as well as use of new technologies may be a cost-effective and feasible way forward. Practical implementation of the system is expected to be a slow and careful process followed by thorough development, fine-tuning, and testing of practical feasibility and general impacts. Further progress that will lead to the full implementation is dependent on intensive research to fill knowledge gaps, enhance education and training and foster close collaboration of all the new system’s stakeholders. 1552099 10.1016/j.foodcont.2021.107870 2022-05-04T10:23:01.187Z 44 no 46 Bojan Blagojević University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Veterinary Medicine Drivers, opportunities, and challenges of the European risk-based meat safety assurance system Truls Nesbakken Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Campus Oslo, Norway, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Production Animal Clinical Sciences Drivers, opportunities, and challenges of the European risk-based meat safety assurance system person Ole Alveseike Animalia – Norwegian Meat and Poultry Research Center Drivers, opportunities, and challenges of the European risk-based meat safety assurance system person Ivar Vagsholm Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Public Health Drivers, opportunities, and challenges of the European risk-based meat safety assurance system person Dragan Antić University of Liverpool, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences Drivers, opportunities, and challenges of the European risk-based meat safety assurance system person Sophia Johler University of Zurich, Vetsuisse Faculty, Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene Drivers, opportunities, and challenges of the European risk-based meat safety assurance system person Kurt Houf Ghent University, Department of Veterinary Public Health Drivers, opportunities, and challenges of the European risk-based meat safety assurance system person Diana Meemken Freie Universit ¨ at Berlin, Institute of Food Safety and Food Hygiene, Working Group Meat Hygiene Drivers, opportunities, and challenges of the European risk-based meat safety assurance system person Ivan Nastasijević Institute of Meat Hygiene and Technology Drivers, opportunities, and challenges of the European risk-based meat safety assurance system person 0000-0002-7141-269X Madalena Vieira Pinto University of Tr ´ as-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Department of Veterinary Science, Animal and Veterinary Research Center Drivers, opportunities, and challenges of the European risk-based meat safety assurance system person Boris Antunović University of J.J. Strossmayer, Faculty of Agrobiotechnical Sciences Drivers, opportunities, and challenges of the European risk-based meat safety assurance system person Milen Georgiev Food Standards Agency, Clive House/ 70 Petty France, Londo Drivers, opportunities, and challenges of the European risk-based meat safety assurance system person Lis Alban University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Drivers, opportunities, and challenges of the European risk-based meat safety assurance system person application/pdf 1606144 https://unilib.phaidrabg.rs/o:192 no yes 18 70 92000002 71A01 Food Control 107870 124 Elsevier 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/foodcontrol