VPT 421: Veterinary Toxicology (2+0)

RISK

• Risk is an estimate of the likelihood of adverse effects assuming that a chemical exposure of a population has occurred.
• Risk is expressed in terms of the estimated frequency of a problem in the exposed population (i.e., one in a million) or in terms of relative risk, that is, the probability of a disease in an exposed vs. an unexposed population (i.e., twice the rate of the unexposed population).