Fig 1.
Example of the 2013 Risk Profile for nitric acid in cleaning products.
Fig 2.
Flowchart showing the successive steps taken to identify content and strategies to redesign the 2013 BfR Risk Profile.
Table 1.
Summary of guiding principles for developing risk assessment communications derived from the literature review.
Table 2.
Summary of suggestions on how to improve the 2013 Risk Profile from focus groups with risk assessors.
Fig 3.
Prototype examples of V1-A and V1-B developed to communicate the severity and probability of outcomes dimensions.
Fig 4.
Visual designs for communicating the health-based guidance value as an example.
Designs were developed and modified during different stages of the project. (A) The initial design discussed in focus groups with risk managers and lay people. (B) Design for cases where both upper and lower threshold values were possible. (C) The final version developed for the magnesium as a food supplement topic after usability tests with risk assessors.
Fig 5.
Final version of the 2020 Risk Profile on magnesium as a food supplement, as developed after usability testing.
Table 3.
Summary of changes to the initial prototype examples (V1) from focus groups with risk managers and general public.
Table 4.
Summary of modifications to the prototype V2 from usability tests.