A step at which control can be applied and is essential to prevent or eliminate a food safety hazard or reduce it to an acceptable level.

vector-borne zoonotic diseases, spread by fleas, and can be found in humans and other mammals

Antibiotics are usually classified or grouped by their chemical structure. Some antibiotic classes work by killing bacteria and others work by preventing the ability of bacteria...

An alternative method is a method of analysis that demonstrates or estimates, for a given category of products, the same analyte as is measured using the corresponding reference...

A drug which, at low concentrations, exerts an action against microbial pathogens and exhibits selective toxicity towards them. Antimicrobials typically include antibiotics but...

Designing a sampling strategy to reduce the cost or enhance the accuracy of surveillance by preferentially sampling strata (e.g. age groups or geographical areas) within the...

"genotype" refers to the genetic makeup of an organism; in other words, it describes an organism's complete set of genes. In a more narrow sense, the term can be used to refer...

An individual in which a parasite undergoes some kind of development, generally with asexual reproduction. A host that is normally used by a parasite in the course of its life...

The person, animal, object, or substance from which an infectious agent is transmitted, either directly or indirectly, to a host

The identification and implementation of policies and activities designed either to prevent zoonotic disease agents from creating health risks or to lessen their frequency,...

Surveillance that complements indicator-based surveillance by continuously scanning the Internet and other communication media to detect information that might lead to the...

an insidious non:killing parasitic vector-borne disease of public health significance, caused by the filarial roundworm Onchocerca volvulus (Leuckart, 1893), which is...

Next-generation sequencing refers to non-Sanger-based high-throughput DNA sequencing technologies. Millions or billions of DNA strands can be sequenced in parallel, yielding...

A container that is designed and intended to be secure against the entry of hazards

The release for free circulation of feed or food or the intention to release feed or food for free circulation within the meaning of Article 79 of Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 in...

System of collecting analysing and disseminating data on the occurrence of zoonoses zoonotic agents and antimicrobial resistance related thereto. As opposed to surveillance no...

Situation analysis in which internal strengths and weaknesses of an organization or system, and external opportunities and threats faced by it are closely examined to chart a...

Fault or circumstance that singly or in combination led to the food-borne outbreak.

The aspect of epidemiology concerned with the search for health-related causes and effects. Uses comparison groups, which provide baseline data, to quantify the association...

Vector control is any method to limit or eradicate the mammals, birds, insects or other arthropods (here collectively called "vectors") which transmit disease pathogens.