Risks settings

Calculation settings

Table 192 Calculation settings for module Risks.

Name	Description
Multiple substances analysis	Specifies whether the assessment involves multiple substances.
Express results in terms of reference substance equivalents (cumulative)	Specifies whether the assessment involves multiple substances and results should be cumulated over all substances.
Health effect type	Specifies whether the health effect is a risk (negative) or benefit (positive).
Risk metric type	Report risks in terms of hazard index (HI = 1/MOE) or margin of exposure.
Show equivalent animal dose output	Specifies whether equivalent animal doses should be reported in the output.
Threshold safety plot	Threshold for interpretation in the margin of exposure or hazard index plot, e.g. MOE = HI = 1 or MOE = 100 and HI = 0.01.
Use inverse distribution to calculate percentile	Calculate percentile via the complementary percentage of the inverse distribution (default: no). Description: E.g., P0.1 of MOE distribution is calculated via P99.9 of 1/MOE distribution. Note: This option is provided because percentile calculation in small data sets is asymmetric in both tails.
Target level	Select to express hazard characterisations at external or internal exposure level. For an aggregate assessement, that is dietary and nondietary exposure data are combined, the target dose level is always internal. When only dietary exposures are available, the target dose level is optional, i.c. external or internal.
Risk type	The type of exposure considered in the assessment; acute (short term) or chronic (long-term).
Calculate risks by modelled foods, substances or a combination of the two	When the dose target level is external, dietary exposures are directly used as input to risks. Dietary exposures preserve the information of exposure by modelled foods, substances or the combination. Summarizing this information may time consuming.

Output settings

Table 193 Output settings for module Risks.

Name	Description
Number of plot labels	Maximum number of labels to plot in hazard vs exposure plot.
Number of substances in hazard vs. exposure plot	Maximum number of substances to plot in hazard vs exposure plot.
Left margin safety plot	Left margin of the plot for margins of exposure or hazard indices.
Right margin safety plot	Right margin of the plot for margins of exposure of hazard indices.
Inclusion percentage variability interval	The central percentage of the variability distribution to include in intervals for exposure, hazard and MOE (e.g. 90 means p5-p95).
Include drill-down on 9 individuals around specified percentile.	Specifies whether drilldown on 9 individuals is to be included in the output.
Summarize simulated data	Specifies whether a summary of the simulated consumptions and concentrations should be included in the output.
Store simulated individual day exposures	Store the simulated individual day exposures. If unchecked, no additional output will be generated. If checked, the output will contain an additional section with the simulated individual day exposures.
Show percentiles for	Give specific percentiles of exposure distribution (%), e.g. 50 90 95 97.5 99 (space separated).
Percentage for drilldown	Gives detailed output for nine individuals near this percentile of the exposure distribution.
Percentage for upper tail	Gives detailed output for this upper percentage of the exposure distribution.
Number of levels of covariable to predict exposure	Specify the number of levels, e.g. 20. The range of the covariable is divided by the number of levels: range = (max - min)/levels. For these covariable levels exposures are predicted.
Predict exposure at extra covariable levels	Specify specific prediction levels in addition to the automatically generated prediction levels (space separated).
Lower percentage for variability (%)	The default value of 25% may be overruled.
Upper percentage for variability (%)	The default value of 75% may be overruled.
Report consumptions and exposures per individual instead of per kg body weight	Specifies whether body weights should be ignored and consumptions and exposures should be expressed per individual. Otherwise, the consumptions and exposures are per kg body weight.