Quantitative risk assessment

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-022931",
  "term": "Quantitative risk assessment",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Risk assessment that uses modeling to determine the probability(s) of what can go wrong, how likely it is to happen, and how severe is the health impact. The results are stated in numerical terms, such as \"there is a 42% probability that one illness may occur from eating a serving of X food with a certain health outcome.\"\n\n2. A detailed analysis that provides a numerical probability that a particular kind of injury will occur (for example, the number of additional cases of cancer in a group of 10,000).\n\n3. Risk assessment that provides numerical expressions of risk and indication of the attendant uncertainties.",
  "subject": "Outcomes",
  "references": [
    "FDA 2001; Thesaurus of Terms Used in Microbial Risk Assessment",
    "Radiation Protection Radiation Glossary",
    "EC 1995; Thesaurus of Terms Used in Microbial Risk Assessment"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/quantitative-risk-assessment/"
}