Explain Risk Assessment
Risk Assessment : The scientific evaluation of known or potential adverse health effects resulting from human exposure to food borne hazards. The process having of the following steps:
(i) hazard identification
(ii) hazard characterization
(iii) exposure assessment, and
(iv) risk characterization.
The definition contains quantitative risk assessment, which emphasizes reliance on numerical expressions of risk and also qualitative expression of risk, as well as, an indication of the attendant uncertainties.