See "compliance with target"

A method of constructing a tree in which at each step the two most closely related clusters that are not yet clustered will be clustered (joined in a "branch"). Once all...

A group or set of identifiable products obtained from a given process under practically identical circumstances and produced in a given place within one defined production period

Any unit of a food business

The use of appropriate data sources and collection methods including automation of data collection where appropriate and the existence of a case definition and a data collection...

A system of surveillance which aims to routinely collect additional/supplementary information pertinent to the disease, such as exposure information

Given an undirected and connected graph G=(V,E), a spanning tree of the graph G is a tree that spans G (that is, it includes every vertex of G) and is a subgraph of G (every...

The proportion of deaths in a specified portion of a population or the proportion of deaths in a group of individuals.

Data reported to European agencies or made publicly available in yearly reports by national agencies related to public health, animal helath and food surveillance. This data is...

A small piece of DNA, often produced by a physical or chemical shearing of larger DNA molecules. NGS machines determine the sequence of many DNA fragments simultaneously.

A description of the measures used to assess disease occurrence (e.g. incidence, prevalence, case numbers) and how the data are analysed include; the spatial and temporal...

The Poisson distribution is used to determine the probability of the number of events occurring over a specified time or space. ... Like the binomial distribution and the normal...

The qualitative and/or quantitative evaluation of the likely intake of biological, chemical, and physical agents via food as well as exposures from other sources if relevant.

a worldwide strategy for expanding interdisciplinary collaborations and communications in all aspects of health care for humans, animals and the environment.

The Codex Alimentarius Commission, or "Food Code" is a collection of standards, guidelines and codes of practice adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission Commission. The...

Units selected for sampling in surveillance activity (level of sampling).e.g. animal, farm, batch, village

The mode of transmission of an infectious agent from its reservoir to a susceptible host. This can be person-to-person, via food, vector-borne, etc

a multidisciplinary collaborative approach to solving global and environmental health challenges. It is a movement to forge co-equal, all-inclusive collaborations between...

The phenotypic serological profile of an organism, typically the somatic and flagella antigens.

Laboratory detection in the food chain or its environment is defined as the detection of the potentialcausative agents in previous stages along the chain of production of the...