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Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

Identification and Application of Methods for Sensitivity Analysis of Complex Food Safety Process Risk Models

Cooperative Agreement

  • NC State University, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis

This website contains the products of a three-year cooperative agreement between NC State University and the Office of Risk Assessment and Cost Benefit Analysis (ORACBA) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The project included three phases. A guest editorial published in Risk Analysis gives an overview of this project. The major work products of each of the three phases are available here:

  • Phase 1. Proceedings of a workshop held June 11-12, 2001, at NC State on Sensitivity Analysis Methods. The Agenda, Participants, and Proceedings of the workshop are available on this site. The white papers prepared for the proceedings were subsequently published as a special section on sensitivity analysis in the June 2002 issue of Risk Analysis.
  • Phase 2. Download Report: Frey, H.C., A. Mokhtari, and T. Danish, Evaluation of Selected Sensitivity Analysis Methods Based Upon Applications to Two Food Safety Process Risk Models, Prepared by NC State University for U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC, September 2003. This report is in the form of an Adobe PDF file of approximately 2.3 MB.
  • Phase 3. Download Report: Frey, H.C., A. Mokhtari, and J. Zheng,Recommended Practice Regarding Selection, Application, and Interpretation of Sensitivity Analysis Methods Applied to Food Safety Process Risk Models, Prepared by NC State University for U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC, January 30, 2004. This report is in the form of an Adobe PDF file of approximately 1.2 MB