Step 1 – How to set up a new dietary assessment To set up a new assessment, navigate to the folder where you wish to store it, click on in the top right corner and then select Assessment from the dropdown menu. The first thing to do is to assign a proper name to the […]
How to run a water assessment
The Water Model mainly represents a special case of the Dietary Model. The NHANES database contains the consumption data of three water types, namely: Water, direct, tap Water, direct, bottled Water, indirect, all sources The three water types are listed in the Food table, as shown below. They differentiate from the other foods listed in […]
How to run a cumulative assessment
Step 1 – How to set up a new cumulative assessment To set up a new assessment, navigate to the folder where you wish to store it, click on in the top right corner and then select Assessment from the dropdown menu. The first thing to do is to assign a name to the assessment. […]
Fraction Crop Treated
The Fraction of Crop Treated (FCT) represents the assumption that the whole crop has been treated with the pesticide(s) under analysis. CARES NG® sets the fraction of crop treated of each raw agricultural commodity equal to 100% by default. The FCT data are stored in the column Percentage of Crop Treated of the Foods table; […]
Processing factors
Each residue value included in the final distribution that will be used in the acute, multi-day and within-day assessments in the Food Model will be multiplied times the processing factor PFk related to the k-th raw agricultural commodity (RAC) under analysis: Residuej,k = Residuej,k * PFk for each pesticide j=1,…,M and for each RAC k=1,…,K […]
LOD rules
This section contains a detailed description of the different options for entering or selecting the residue values to be used in the food exposure assessments for acute, multi-day and within-day assessment especially as relates to measurement values below the Limit of Detection (LOD) or the Limit of Quantification (LOQ). The outputs of these options will […]
Statistical distributions
CARES NG® provides a number of statistical distributions that can be used in the Food table as an alternative source of residue concentration data to run dietary exposure analyses. The table below contains the list of the available distributions together with the list of the parameters required by each distribution. Distribution name Distribution definition Parameter […]