Proposal of a ranking methodology for plant threats in the EU
Author(s)
Tayeh, Christine
Mannino, Maria Rosaria
Mosbach-Schulz, Olaf
Stancanelli, Giuseppe
Tramontini, Sara
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Following a request of the European Commission, EFSA and ANSES, beneficiary of the EFSA tasking grant on horizon scanning for plant pests (GP/EFSA/ALPHA/2017/02), developed a methodology to order by risk non-regulated pests recently identified through the monitoring of media and scientific literature. The ranking methodology proposed at the end of the pilot phase was based on the scoring of pests under evaluation following 16 criteria related to the steps of the pest risk assessment scheme. The multicriteria matrix of scores obtained was then submitted to the multicriteria analysis method PROMETHEE. The pilot methodology was tested on a limited number of pests (14 pests identified during the monitoring activity, and 4 ‘control’ pests whose well-known risk should be reflected either in a positive or negative score), then applied on all non-regulated pests identified through the media and scientific literature monitoring in the first 2 years of the project. After having collected feedback from the targeted final users (EU risk managers), the methodology underwent a few refinements: (i) implementation of the methodology to a set of already assessed reference pests from EFSA opinions, (ii) exclusions of three criteria from the scoring phase, (iii) identification of pests proposed for further action (‘positive’ pests), using a threshold defined after scoring the reference pests.
Date Issued
2022-01-01
Date Acceptance
2022-01-01
Citation
EFSA Journal, 2022, 20 (1)
ISSN
1831-4732
Publisher
Wiley
Journal / Book Title
EFSA Journal
Volume
20
Issue
1
Copyright Statement
© 2022 European Food Safety Authority. EFSA Journal published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd on behalf of European Food Safety Authority. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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Subjects
Food Science & Technology
HEALTH
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
multicriteria decision-aiding method
pest ranking
pest risk analysis
pest scoring
PESTS
plant health
Science & Technology
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
United States
Article Number
e07025
Date Publish Online
2022-01-27