JEMRA, the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meetings on Microbiological Risk Assessment, began in 2000 in response to requests from the Codex Alimentarius Commission and FAO and WHO Member Countries and the increasing need for risk based scientific advice on microbiological food safety issues.

JEMRA aims to develop and optimise the utility of microbiological risk assessment (MRA) as a tool to inform actions and decisions aimed at improving food safety and to make it equally available to both developing and developed countries.

Latest news

• Tools for application of Codex guidelines on control of Campylobacter and Salmonella in chicken meat. Read more
• FAO/WHO - Microbiological Risk Assessment Series 18 - Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli in raw beef and beef products: approaches for the provision of scientific advice. Meeting report now available in English
• A report requested to FAO/WHO from the Codex Committee on Food Hygiene (CCFH) on microbiological hazards and melons is now available. This report includes a literature review of microbial safety and the melon supply chain and a summary received from the FAO/WHO call for data. Report available only in English. Read more
• FAO/WHO - Microbiological Risk Assessment Series 16 - Risk assessment of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in seafood. Interpretative summary and technical report now available in English
• FAO/WHO have been working to put forth the following: Is Salmonella in live bivalve molluscs a significant public health risk? and, would a microbiological criterion and sampling plan be meaningful for public health protection? The results are now available in The Interim Report of the Electronic Expert Group on Salmonella in Bivalve Molluscs