CARES: Earlier Releases
The following previous releases of CARES are available by contacting the ILSI Research Foundation: rf@ilsi.org.
Production Version 2.0 Build 7.0 Build Date 24 November 2004. Production versions differ from evaluation versions in that they have been extensively tested for potential bugs and/or errors.
Evaluation Version 2.0 Build 7.3 Build Date 15 January 2005 (aka Evaluation Version 2.1). This version includes two key enhancements useful for cumulative dietary assessments: 1) It can accommodate multiple food consumption data sets, each subset by different foods/food form. 2) It provides an option to not track “Sample ID”, which is part of the residue data sets, while using the “Actual Values” sampling option. This option generates faster run times.
Evaluation Version 2.0 Build 7.5 Build Date 1 June 2005. This version corrects an error noted in the above Evaluation Version 2.0 Build 7.3. The error occurs in the 'Source Accumulator' when the module is scanning its connections for valid inputs. To determine if a connection is a valid input, a test for an end-of-file condition, as well a record count determination is performed. This test was previously performed via a single, compound expression. However, due to the manner in which Visual Basic evaluates Boolean expressions, a compound expression can, under certain circumstances, cause a system error by performing the tests in an order that is not compatible with the nature of our input connections. The solution was to split the validity checks into numerous simple tests.
Evaluation Version 2.2 Build 7.8.9 Build Date 14 March 2006. This version includes two major enhancements: 1.) the Dietary Minute Module (DMM) and 2.) enhancements to the drinking water module. The DMM is useful for assessing within-day (minute-by-minute) risk from exposure to pesticides that have rapidly reversible effects (e.g., the rapidly reversible (minutes to hours) inhibition of cholinesterase by carbonates). A new FCID consumption database with time of eating event is incorporated in this module with three alternative methods for estimating risk within-day. The enhanced water module provides several modifications to the drinking water module: a.) assigns weighting factors to residue data set, b.) optimizes code to run larger residue files, c.) corrects assignment of water consumption to specific water codes, and d.) allows dependency of residue data by water source (ground water or surface water). NOTE: Evaluation Version 2.2 was sponsored by Bayer CropScience.