Customers & Industries: Tulane University Industry: Academic Product(s): @RISK Application: Food Safety Summary The Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010 prompted widespread concern regarding the risk in consuming seafood from the areas aff ected by the spill. Researchers from Tulane University in New Orleans used @RISK to conduct a targeted health risk assessment based on the consumption of locally harvested shrimp among communities of Vietnamese-Americans in southeast Louisiana, who typically consume greater amounts of shrimp than the national average. By determining this demographic’s body mass and daily shrimp intake, as well as the chemical levels present in the shrimp that they consumed, the @RISK model showed that there was no unacceptable acute health or cancer risks associated with

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