This image illustrates the processes involved in an animal health risk assessment.
This image has six boxes lined up vertically in the centre, and one box running along the side that says: Risk Communications.
The first box says: Request to release Biotechnology-Derived Animals. There is an arrow below the box pointed to the second box.
The second box says: AHPD/ABU - Animal Health Risk Assessment Request. There is an arrow pointing in both directions to the right of the box, in-between the second box and the Risk Communications box. There is an arrow below the box pointed to the third box.
The third box says: Animal Health Risk Assessment Unit, Hazard Identification, Risk Assessment - Release Assessment, Exposure Assessment, Consequence Assessment, Risk Estimation. There is a circle pointing to the third box that says: Centres of Expertise. There is an arrow pointing in both directions to the right of the box, in-between the third box and the Risk Communications box. There is an arrow below this box pointing to the fourth box.
The fourth box says: Risk Assessment Document. There is an arrow pointing in both directions to the right of the box, in-between the fourth box and the Risk Communications box. There is an arrow below the box pointing to the fifth box.
The fifth box says: Peer Review (case by case basis). There is an arrow pointing in both directions to the right of the box, in-between the fifth box and the Risk Communications box. There is an arrow below this box pointing to the sixth box.
The sixth box says: AHPD/ABU - Recommendations to EC and HC. There is an arrow pointing in both directions to the right of the box, in-between the sixth box and the Risk Communications box.
There is another box on the left of the image that points to the fifth and sixth boxes. This box says: AHPD/ABU - Risk Management - Risk Evaluation, Option Evaluation, Implementation, Monitoring & Review.