Editorial: Risk-benefit assessment of foods: Advances in public health

Risk-Benefit Assessment (RBA) of Foods is briskly developing to support complex public health decision-making processes related to nutritional, microbiological and toxicological issues. With the intention to tackle public health matters with a comprehensive and integrative approach, methodologies have evolved, and several challenges were identified and must be overcome to facilitate the use of RBA (1–4). The Research Topic on “Advances in Public Health with Risk-Benefit Assessment of Foods” comprises seven articles including original research and reviews, providing recent progress and perspectives in the field. More specifically, it integrates new RBA case studies that make use of diverse health metrics; suggestions on methodological developments to enhance clarity and transparency in the process; insight of integration in a One Health strategy; and novel considerations of how RBA outcomes could be communicated.