Release notes – v1.0

Highlight of features included in current release

  • The non-temporal Residential model. Allowing user to manage, run and rerun exposure assessments with different combinations of products and scenarios using a user-friendly wizard to manage the all the inputs required.
  • Dietary model, full implementation, managed by a user friendly wizard allowing a user to:
    • run and rerun dietary exposure assessments for multiple chemicals.
    • manage different types of residue concentration data and different combinations of input data
  • File management system for files, data and assessments.
  • Data editor to create and edit the five table types required for risk assessments.
  • Table import from csv files.
  • Data validation checker in the data editor, to continually check the user data and provide immediate feedback on invalid data.
  • Two databases:
    • NHANES / WWEIA
    • PDP
  • PDP tool to select subset of data from the PDP database for dietary exposure assessments.
  • Table export feature, to allow all tables and assessments be exported to csv files for use in MS Excel
  • A user support system, to guide the user through using the product and improve customer engagement and support response.
  • Custom population builder for assessments

Known issues in current release

  • File management system does not allow user scroll past 25 files in each folder
  • Activity page – quick links to successful assessments not working.
  • Validation process – if errors are corrected while filtered by the validation process, the system does not deactivate the error filters
  • Users must reset passwords from the login page, password reset on profile page is not working.
  • Assessment wizard – the statistics step does not retain previous selections when closing & reopening or rerunning the assessment
  • Residential model:
    • Cumulative model not scheduled for this release; it is only possible to analyse a single chemical.
    • Calculation of the dermal exposure for the scenarios; animal barn and indoor environments can produce incorrect results
    • PDF report is not available
    • Calculation of the handler exposure for all the scenarios is in grams not milligrams
    • Toxicology data not shown in the assessment output tables. Download the assessment to inspect this data.
  • Dietary model currently uses data from neighbour to cover n consecutive days, not randomly spread data over the year.
  • Dietary report does not show the water-only and food-only outputs.