General Risk Assessment Tools

Format	Author(s)	Title / Description	Date added	Details
	Zheng, Junyu, and H. Christopher Frey	AuvTool This software tool, developed for the Office of Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency, is for use in quantifying variability and uncertainty in quantitative analysis. The tool was presented at the Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA, in a workshop entitled "Bootstrap Simulation and Two- Dimensional Monte Carlo Simulation: Dealing with Variability and Uncertainty, Mixture Distributions, Measurement Error, and Censored Data." The software is available to download, as is a user's manual, technical documentation, workshop handouts and slides, and a paper entitled "Quantification of variability and uncertainty using mixture distributions: evaluation of sample size, mixing weights and separation between components". (more) Publication Month: February 2002	Jan 17, 2003
	Sielken and Associates Consulting, Inc.	DistGEN DISTribution GENerator. A tool for Monte Carlo simulation. Applications include exposure and dose analysis, as well as aggregate and cumulative risk characterization. (more)	Jun 3, 2002
	Division of Public Health Surveillance and Informatics, Epidemiology Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	Epi Info This site provides free access to Epi Info software. Epi Info and Epi Map are software packages designed for public health practitioners and researchers. They include capabilities in form and database construction, data entry, and analysis with epidemiologic statistics, maps, and graphs. (more)	Jul 19, 2002
	Exponent, Inc.	FARE MicrobialTM Software program for conducting probabilistic microbial risk assessment. The program was developed by Exponent together with the Food and Drug Administration, and consists of a Contamination and Growth Module and an Exposure Module. Data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals (CSFII) 1994-96, 98 are included in the program. A users manual, containing both installation and use guidelines, is provided. (more) Publication Month: September 2002	Nov 4, 2002
	Risk Assessment Program, Toxicology and Risk Analysis Section, Life Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Department of Energy	Human Health Risk Exposure Model This tool uses exposure concentrations to calculate doses and risks. The equations for performing this analysis are also available for different exposure scenarios. Exposure through consumption of fish can be found in the RECREATIONAL LAND USE; Exposure to Contaminants in Water section, and exposure through the consumption of homegrown produce can be found in the RESIDENTIAL LAND USE; Exposure to Contaminants in Water section. (more)	Aug 30, 2002
	Industrial Safety Integration	Industrial Safety Integration Provider of safety training and distributor of CIRSMA risk assessment software, a tool for evaluating and reducing risk associated with machine hazards and occupational health and safety. (more)	Jul 15, 2005
	The LifeLine Group	LifeLine™ v4.3 LifeLine Aggregate and Cumulative Exposure / Risk Assessment Software™ Version 4.3, a software "tool to characterize population-based aggregate and cumulative exposures and risks from pesticide residues in food and tapwater as well as in the home following residential uses". (more)	Apr 26, 2006
	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development	OECD’s Database on Chemical Risk Assessment Models Database of information on models for predicting health effects, environmental effects, exposure potential, or risks from chemicals. The database can be searched or browsed by country or property/effect (including ingestion or ingestion of beef and dairy products as routes of exposure and intake of chemicals in food as type of exposure). (more)	Apr 4, 2005
	RiskWorld, Tec-Com Inc.	Risk-Related Software Listing of software related to risk analysis.	Nov 22, 2004
	Ivanciuc, Ovidiu, et al.	SDAP: Structural Database of Allergenic Proteins - Food Allergens "SDAP is a Web server that integrates a database of allergenic proteins with various bioinformatics tools for performing structural studies related to allergens and characterization of their epitopes". (more)	May 10, 2005
	Machain, Luciano	SimulAr Add-in for Microsoft Excel that is distributed as "emailware". SimulAr adds probability distribution functions in spreadsheets for performing Monte Carlo simulation and risk analysis under uncertainty conditions. Includes the possibility of correlating variables and fitting distributions to data. (more)	Mar 22, 2005
	Institute for Environmental Modeling, University of Tennessee, Knoxville	Spatial Analysis and Decision Assistance: SADA Free software designed to support environmental assessment that includes modules for human health risk assessment, decision analysis, cost/benefit analysis, geospatial analysis, statistical analysis, and more. Documentation and information on an email list for users are available from this website. (more)	Jun 23, 2004

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