Miller L, McElvaine M D, McDowell R M, Ahl A S
United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Hyattsville, MD 20782.
Rev Sci Tech. 1993 Dec;12(4):1153-64. doi: 10.20506/rst.12.4.737.
The international animal health community is advocating a more widespread use of quantitative risk assessment in making international trade decisions. In this article, the authors explain why quantitative risk assessment is a valuable tool, outline a process with key steps for developing a quantitative risk assessment, and describe a method for quantifying the uncertainty associated with the results of a risk assessment.