International disease monitoring - Qualitative risk assessments

When Defra is officially notified of a new disease incident in an EU Member State, a country on the border of the EU or one of the UK’s third country trading partners, we carry out a qualitative risk analysis. This is based on the general principles of the OIE risk analysis framework. Qualitative Risk analysis of disease outbreaks in countries outside the UK PDF (37 KB). Defra asked risk analysis experts at the Royal Veterinary College to assess our approach to risk assessment (RVC review of qualitative risk assessments). Information regarding Preliminary outbreak assessments are also available.

Summary of Animal Health Risk Analysis on Composite Food Products Containing Products of Animal Origin (PDF 70 KB). Comments are welcome until the end of July 2005.

The following qualitative risk assessments are available in PDFAdobe Acrobat format. Further information is available on our Help page about downloading or reading PDF Adobe Acrobat documents.

For qualitative risk assessments older than 2008, please visit this page on the National Archives website.

Date published	Title	File size
8 February 2010	An update on Equine Infectious Anaemia - Potential risk factors for the introduction of the virus to the United Kingdom from the EU member states	350KB
18 June 2009	An update on the potential role of specific wild bird species and mammals in the epidemiology of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza infection	1.1 MB
24 February 2009	West Nile Virus: Potential risk factors and the likelihood for the introduction of the disease into the United Kingdom (Amended)	720 KB
10 February 2009	West Nile Virus: Potential risk factors and the likelihood for the introduction of the disease into the United Kingdom	515 KB
6 November 2008	African Horse Sickness: Potential risk factor and the likelihood for the introduction of disease to the United Kingdom	750 KB
29 October 2008	Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1) - Recent developments in the EU and the likelihood of the introduction into Great Britain by wild birds	400 KB

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