The pathogen or its product, such as a toxin or bioactive amine, considered to be the cause of the food-borne outbreak.

Any action and activity that can be used to prevent or eliminate a food safety hazard or reduce it to an acceptable level.

To deprive of capability or effectiveness, especially to impair the physical abilities of.

See "alternative method"

In general, the core steps in preparing RNA or DNA for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) analysis are: (i) fragmenting and/or sizing the target sequences to a desired length,...

is the detection and elimination of an exotic species during inspection of an imported consignment, preventing establishment of the species.

See "mortality rate"

Data that are expressed in a summary form (e.g. summary statistics)

The qualitative and/or quantitative evaluation of the nature of the adverse health effects associated with biological, chemical and physical agents, which may be present in food.

Single site in any DNA sequence for which the identity of the nucleotide differs among individuals.

Incidence is the number of new cases that occur in a known population over a specified period of time.

Semantic interoperability is the ability of computer systems to exchange data with unambiguous, shared meaning. Semantic interoperability is a requirement to enable machine...

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...

Term not used in this sector

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

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...