It is widely accepted in the world to prioritize the food, microbiological hazards and its combinations using risk ranking techniques before food safety supervisions and quantitative microbiological risk assessments were performed, however there is no universal methodology available for risk ranking. The present study reviewed the published risk ranking framework for food microbiological hazards, figured out their disadvantages and put forward an opinion to build a quantitative risk ranking model for microbiological hazards based on risk surveillance data.