11:40 - 13:00
Symposium – Lifting the fog on uncertainty – practical advances on assessing and communicating uncertainty in the European public arena
Room: F229
Symposium
Chair/s:
caroline merten, Laura MARTINO
S40-01
Symposium abstract
Caroline Merten 1, Anthony Smith 1, Anne Marthe van der Bles 2, Howard Needham 3
1 European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Parma, Italy, 2 Winton Centre for Risk & Evidence Communication, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 3 European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden
S40-02
Approaches to assess and manage scientific uncertainty: examples from EU ANSA Agencies
Howard Needham
Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden
S40-03
Testing the EFSA guidance document on uncertainty: challenges and benefits
Caroline Merten 1, Laura Martino 1, Olaf Mosbach-Schulz 1, Andy Hart 2
1 European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Parma, Italy, 2 University Newcastle, Newcastle, United Kingdom
S40-04
Explaining incomplete knowledge – EFSA’s approach for communicating scientific uncertainties in food safety assessments
Anthony Smith 1, Laura Maxim 2, Michael Siegrist 3, Andy Hart 4, Cristina da Cruz 1, Caroline Merten 1, Olaf Mosbach-Schulz 1, Natalie von Götz 3, Tony Hardy 1
1 European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Parma, Italy, 2 Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris, France, 3 ETH, Zürich, Switzerland, 4 Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom
S40-05
The effects of communicating uncertainty about numbers and facts
Anne Marthe van der Bles, Sander van der Linden, Alexandra Freeman, David Spiegelhalter
Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom