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

Precise Statement

A precise statement describes a commodity with numerical and geographic detail and other information such as current requirements for entry or other data that enable the risk assessor to limit the number of variables that need to be analyzed.

Example of a precise activity statement:

  • 100 chickens imported in a single group
  • Originate from an identified commercial breeder in Province Y, Country X
  • Imported according to a protocol that includes:
    • Quarantine requirements
    • Testing requirements

Example of a precise statement of undesirable outcome:

  • Imported chickens infected with Newcastle Disease and allowed to come into contact with poultry in the U.S.
  • Outbreak of Newcastle in U.S. poultry
  • Newcastle becomes endemic in U.S. poultry