Situation stating when the sample (a foodstuff, feedingstuff or a batch of them) is considered to be positive for the zoonotic agent

In this team, each member becomes so familiar with the roles and responsibilities of the other members that tasks and functions become interchangeable to some extent. This type...

Identification of undiagnosed cases of disease using rapid tests or examinations

See "food"

The conditions that surround a given area, especially in reference to parameters which may influence the functioning of devices, equipment, or the readings of instruments. These...

Term not used in this sector

A form of integrative research that employs a holistic and/or systems thinking and participatory action research, combines knowledge from outside, as well as within academia and...

Food prepared and served by kitchens in hotels, restaurants and during caterings. This includes e.g. cafés, canteens/ institutions, buffets, homes, take-away food stores, food...

Biotic factors are the living parts of an ecosystem. Biotic factors such as soil bacteria, plant life, top predators, and polluters can all profoundly shape which organisms can...

A pure strain of bacteria which has been seperated from a mixed bacterial culture

Whether the system captures information about more than one hazard

Non-compliance with feed or food law, and with the rules for the protection of animal health and welfare

Peparing purified DNA for NGS. Fragmentizes long DNA strands and ligates primers and other sequencing related bits.

The number of sequence reads in a sequencing project that align to positions that overlap a specific base on a target genome, or the average number of aligned reads that overlap...

The examination of any aspect of feed, food, animal health and animal welfare in order to verify that such aspect(s) comply with the legal requirements of feed and food law and...

An assessment of organisational structures include whether the objectives are relevant and clearly defined and the existence of steering and technical committees whose members...

A significant association between consumption of a foodstuff and being a case in an analytical epidemiological study (e.g. cohort or case–control study)

Measures the proportions of positive results in statistics and diagnostic tests that are true positive results

MLST is a nucleotide sequence based approach for the unambiguous characterisation of isolates of bacteria and other organisms via the internet. The aim of MLST is to provide a...

A process that begins when an agent leaves its reservoir or host through a portal of exit, and is conveyed by some mode of transmission, then enters through an appropriate...