TDS exposure project: Application of the analytic hierarchy process for the prioritization of substances to be analyzed in a total diet study

Papadopoulos, Alexandra; Sioen, Isabelle; Cubadda, Francesco; Özer, Hayrettin; Basegmez, Hatice Imge Oktay; Turrini, Aida; Esteban, María Teresa; Juan, Pedro Mario Fernández San; Sokolić-Mihalak, Darja; Jurković, Marina; Henauw, S. De; Aureli, Federica; K, Vin; Sirot, Véronique

doi:10.1016/j.fct.2014.11.015

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“…In order to do this, many studies relied on literature research [ 20 , 25 , 26 , 45 – 83 ]. In addition, many studies relied on expert interviews [ 20 , 45 – 49 , 51 , 54 , 56 – 58 , 61 , 66 – 71 , 74 , 75 , 77 , 78 , 81 – 97 ] or focus groups [ 26 , 51 , 69 , 82 , 87 , 98 ]. Almost all of the studies defined their criteria by analyzing more than one source of information, although five publications did not explain their process for this step [ 99 – 103 ].…”

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Applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process in healthcare research: A systematic literature review and evaluation of reporting

Schmidt

Aumann

Hollander

et al. 2015

BMC Med Inform Decis Mak

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BackgroundThe Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), developed by Saaty in the late 1970s, is one of the methods for multi-criteria decision making. The AHP disaggregates a complex decision problem into different hierarchical levels. The weight for each criterion and alternative are judged in pairwise comparisons and priorities are calculated by the Eigenvector method. The slowly increasing application of the AHP was the motivation for this study to explore the current state of its methodology in the healthcare context.MethodsA systematic literature review was conducted by searching the Pubmed and Web of Science databases for articles with the following keywords in their titles or abstracts: “Analytic Hierarchy Process,” “Analytical Hierarchy Process,” “multi-criteria decision analysis,” “multiple criteria decision,” “stated preference,” and “pairwise comparison.” In addition, we developed reporting criteria to indicate whether the authors reported important aspects and evaluated the resulting studies’ reporting.ResultsThe systematic review resulted in 121 articles. The number of studies applying AHP has increased since 2005. Most studies were from Asia (almost 30 %), followed by the US (25.6 %). On average, the studies used 19.64 criteria throughout their hierarchical levels. Furthermore, we restricted a detailed analysis to those articles published within the last 5 years (n = 69). The mean of participants in these studies were 109, whereas we identified major differences in how the surveys were conducted. The evaluation of reporting showed that the mean of reported elements was about 6.75 out of 10. Thus, 12 out of 69 studies reported less than half of the criteria.ConclusionThe AHP has been applied inconsistently in healthcare research. A minority of studies described all the relevant aspects. Thus, the statements in this review may be biased, as they are restricted to the information available in the papers. Hence, further research is required to discover who should be interviewed and how, how inconsistent answers should be dealt with, and how the outcome and stability of the results should be presented. In addition, we need new insights to determine which target group can best handle the challenges of the AHP.

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confidence: 99%

Applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process in healthcare research: A systematic literature review and evaluation of reporting

Schmidt

Aumann

Hollander

et al. 2015

BMC Med Inform Decis Mak

169

127

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“…MCDA has been applied in many areas such as finance, ecology, drugs, and medical devices. MCDA has also been used in the food context as way to rank chemical or microbiological hazards (Fazil, Rajic, Sanchez, & McEwen, ; Papadopoulos et al., ; Ruzante et al., ; Ruzante, Grieger, Woodward, Lambertini, & Kowalcyk, ; U.S. Food and Drug Administration [FDA], ). In this context, MCDA has been used to combine several criteria related to incidence of adverse effects, their severity, and the consequences of risk on direct or indirect costs, or perception, by consumers (Anderson, Jaykus, Beaulieu, & Dennis, ; FDA, ; Havelaar et al., ; Lake, Cressey, Campbell, & Oakley, ; Ruzante et al., ).…”

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Combining Quantitative Risk Assessment of Human Health, Food Waste, and Energy Consumption: The Next Step in the Development of the Food Cold Chain?

Duret¹,

Hoang²,

Derens-Bertheau³

et al. 2018

Risk Analysis

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The preservation of perishable food via refrigeration in the supply chain is essential to extend shelf life and provide consumers with safe food. However, electricity consumed in refrigeration processes has an economical and an environmental impact. This study focuses on the cold chain of cooked ham, including transport, cold room in supermarket, display cabinet, transport by consumer, and domestic refrigerator, and aims to predict the risk for human health associated with Listeria monocytogenes, the amount of food wasted due to the growth of spoilage bacteria, and the electrical consumption to maintain product temperature through the cold chain. A set of eight intervention actions were tested to evaluate their impact on the three criteria. Results show that the modification of the thermostat of the domestic refrigerator has a high impact on food safety and food waste and a limited impact on the electrical consumption. Inversely, the modification of the airflow rate in the display cabinet has a high impact on electrical consumption and a limited impact on food safety and food waste. A cost-benefit analysis approach and two multicriteria decision analysis methods were used to rank the intervention actions. These three methodologies show that setting the thermostat of the domestic refrigerator to 4°C presents the best compromise between the three criteria. The impact of decisionmaker preferences (criteria weight) and limitations of these three approaches are discussed. The approaches proposed by this study may be useful in decision making to evaluate global impact of intervention actions in issues involving conflicting outputs.

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“…The decision on the aim and design of the TDS is also influenced by the choice of chemical substances to be considered. Within the TDS exposure project a process was developed to decide which contaminants should be considered; for this we referred to Vin et al (2014) and Papadopoulos et al (2014).…”

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Establishing a food list for a Total Diet Study: how does food consumption of specific subpopulations need to be considered?

Akhandaf

Henauw

Dofková

et al. 2014

Food Additives & Contaminants: Part A

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A Total Diet Study (TDS) consists of selecting, collecting and analysing commonly consumed foods to obtain concentration data of different chemical compounds in foods as eaten. A TDS food list summarises the most consumed foods and represents the dietary habits of the general population of the country under study. The work reported here investigated whether TDS food lists that were initially designed for the whole population of the country under study also sufficiently cover the dietary pattern of specific subpopulations that are extra vulnerable for certain contaminants. The work was performed using data of three European countries: the Czech Republic, France and the UK. Each national food consumption database was combined with the corresponding national TDS food list (containing 336, 212 and 119 food items for the Czech Republic, France and the UK, respectively). The data were aggregated on the highest level of hierarchy of FoodEx-1, a pan-European food classification system, including 20 main FoodEx-1 groups. For the group 'milk and dairy products', the coverage of the consumption by the food list was investigated for more refined subgroups. For each food group or subgroup and country, the average percentage of coverage of the diet by the national TDS food list was calculated for different subpopulations, including children versus adults, women versus men, vegetarians versus non-vegetarians, and women of child-bearing age versus older women. The average diet of the different subpopulations was sufficiently covered by the food list of the Czech Republic and France. For the UK the average coverage was low due to a different food-coding approach and because food lists were not derived directly from national food consumption data. At the level of the 20 main food groups, differences between the subpopulations with respect to the average coverage of consumption by the TDS food list were minimal. The differences were more pronounced when looking in detail at the coverage of the dairy consumption. TDS food lists based on the mean consumption of the general population are also applicable to study the chemical exposure of different subpopulations, e.g. children, women of child-bearing age and vegetarians. This lowers the effort when performing a TDS.

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TDS exposure project: Application of the analytic hierarchy process for the prioritization of substances to be analyzed in a total diet study

Cited by 18 publications

References 7 publications

Applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process in healthcare research: A systematic literature review and evaluation of reporting

Applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process in healthcare research: A systematic literature review and evaluation of reporting

Combining Quantitative Risk Assessment of Human Health, Food Waste, and Energy Consumption: The Next Step in the Development of the Food Cold Chain?

Establishing a food list for a Total Diet Study: how does food consumption of specific subpopulations need to be considered?

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