Handbook on import risk analysis for animals and animal products /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Murray, Noel
Corporate Author:	International Office of Epizootics
Other Authors:	MacDiarmid, Stuart C.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Paris : Office international des épizooties, [2004]
Subjects:	Animals. Risk Assessment. Probability. Agriculture.

Table of Contents:

v. 1. Introduction and qualitative risk analysis
Introduction to import risk analysis
What is risk?
Approaches to risk analysis
Import risk analysis for animals and animal products
World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Agreement (the SPS agreement)
Terrestrial Animal Health Code and Aquatic Animal Health Code
Managing a risk analysis project
Developing a risk communication strategy
Determining the scope of a risk analysis
The OIE risk analysis framework
Terminology
Acceptable risk
Transparency
Uncertainity and variability
Presenting the results
External risk analyses
Updating risk analyses
Quantitative methods complement qualitative methods
Semi-quantitative methods
Scenario trees
Applying the OIE risk analysis framework
Hazard identification
Risk assessment
Release assessment
Exposure assessment
Consequence assessment
Risk estimation
Risk managment
Risk communication
Conclusion
v. 2. Quantitative risk assessment
An introduction to quantitative risk analysis
Probability and probability distributions
Therorems providing a basis for probabilistic risk assessment
Useful probability distributions
Probability processes and calculations
Determining a distribution to represent a variable
An introduction to second order modelling
Guidelines for developing a quantitative risk assessment model