Fig. 1. Panel A depicts all production facilities involved in the manufacture and marketing of a certain food product within a country. Food Safety
Management, i.e. the details of GMP, GHP and HACCP provisions, are specific to the facility, the processing line and the exact product composition
and processing. Panel B illustrates that, for a specific food product, microbiological risk assessment considers all foods consumed in a country,
whether produced in that country or imported; it involves all different production facilities, a multitude of production-lines and product compositions
and processing. MRA takes a generic, population level view on the overall production and marketing of a food product.