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August 2006 - Vol 1, Issue 1
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Greetings,

Hello and welcome to our very first newsletter to all of you who are interested in food and chemical safety, exposure assessment and collaboration. CREMe's Mission is to promote health and wellness by helping regulators, safety authorities, food, personal care product and chemical manufacturers to easily and accurately evaluate exposure levels of consumers to chemicals. Firstly, we would like to thank all of our customers and those who have supported us and helped us to get this far.

The CREMe newsletter is our way of communicating with you - the food safety professionals of this world. In this monthly newsletter we will discuss current issues in the area of food safety along with methods and case studies for managing these issues efficiently and effectively.

CREMe has been working in the area of food safety for a number of years and we are keen on developing a community of professionals interested in state-of-the-art food safety, exposure assessment analysis and collaboration. To this end, we have set up this newsletter.

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In an ideal world, complete and accurate food consumption survey data would be available, compiled with full information at the individual eating event level. For every food specified in an eating event, the food brand and packaging type would also be specified. For each food brand, information would be available on concentration levels of all possible pesticides, residues, additives and nutrients. For any type of food packaging, we would have accurate information on migrated amounts of all chemicals of interest between the packaging and the food.

If this type of data was available for your region of interest, exposure assessment specialists would not be needed. It would simply be a matter of adding up the amounts of each chemical of interest appearing in the survey, and obtaining a population exposure distribution. Unfortunately, we don't live in an ideal world and we are rarely ever faced with ideal information.
Food safety and exposure assessment is not all about pesticides, contaminants and artificial flavourings and sweeteners. There are other less obvious food ingredients that need to be carefully analysed in terms of the consumption levels of the population.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) recently signed up to a 5 year licence for CREMe Food Safety because the software provides an easily accessible and comprehensive means of conducting probabilistic risk assessments on hazards associated with foods. Using CREMe expertise and software the FSAI were able to set up and analyse data to gauge the impact of salt reductions in foods on the overall salt intake of the Irish population.

CREMe's state-of-the-art food safety system: CREMe Food Safety uses on-demand high performance computing to allow analysts to easily and accurately estimate exposure to food additives and flavourings, contaminants, pesticide residues, nutrients and other ingredients of concern. CREMe has a team of experts who provide training and consultancy services in the area. Please feel free to contact us for more information on any of the above.

CREMe provides health and wellness by helping regulators, safety authorities, food, personal care product and chemical manufacturers to easily and accurately evaluate exposure levels of consumers to chemicals.

Yours Sincerely,
Cronan McNamara
CREMe Software Ltd.

phone: +353 1 896 8451

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