SPS Online.
Risk Analysis Overview
Overview.
risk Assessment.
Risk Management.
Risk Communication.
Review.
In-Depth Interpretation of Risk Assessment.
What is Risk Assessment.
What Risk Assessment Do & What They Not Do.
Conducting a Good Risk Assessmnet.
Overview.
Precise Statement.
Imprecise Statement.
Imprecise Statement.
Review.
International Guidelines for Risk Analysis.
Guidelines Relative to Plant Protection & Quarantine.
Guidelines Relative to Veterinary Services.
Overview.
Definition of a Region.
Benchmark Risk Levels.
Compliance with WTO Requirments.
Example - Background of South Africa.
Glossary.

What is Needed to Conduct a Good Risk Assessment

Overview

A thorough risk assessment requires a great deal of information. Analysts evaluate the information in an organized and systematic way. In addition to the information itself, analysts may also consider their liability of the information by evaluating the quality of the surveillance system in a given country, the laboratory capabilities, and other aspects of the exporting country's quarantine programs. Risk assessments should describe the uncertainties (the information or data that is not known), the assumptions made, and the effect of these on the final risk estimate. Risk assessments may be updated when additional information becomes available.

The APHIS approach begins by identifying the risky or hazardous activity or commodity (Hazard Identification). It is important to describeprecisely the activity or commodity to be evaluated and pinpoint any undesirable outcomes.