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Every 4 years, the Dutch law on Independent Risk Assessment by the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (WOR) is evaluated. The WOR came into effect in 2006 with its main goal being to provide independent risk assessment and advice on risk management in food and consumer product safety. The WOR is organisational secured by functionally separating the research and advisory tasks from the regular inspection tasks, and placing them under a separate directorate within the NVWA: Bureau Risk Assessment & Research (BuRO).
Dialogic conducted the evaluation on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality. We studied the effectiveness and efficiency of the WOR during the period 2011-2020. We also examined whether the principles from 2004 are still applicable and if they may need to be supplemented or adjusted.
Conclusions and recommendations can be found in the research report recently sent to the Dutch House of Representatives by Minister Schouten.
Want to know more about this evaluation? Ask Frank Bongers.