assurance that food is acceptable for human consumption according to its intended use.

refers to the maximum allowable numerical values and/or proportions which can be used by competent authorities or food business operators (FBO) to derive a microbiological...

Perfect reference standard, i.e. sensitivity and specificity 100%

A group of people/animals/food stuff in the population with a higher-than expected risk for developing a particular disease/harbouring the hazard, which may be defined on a...

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

The identification of biological, chemical, and physical agents capable of causing adverse health effects and which may be present in a particular food or group of foods.

A consignment is a quantity of some commodity delivered at one time. It may consist in either a portion of a lot, either a set of several lots.

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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.

Surveillance that is focused on one or more pre-defined hazards (disease, condition, biological, chemical or physical agent, or event) often this form of surveillance uses...

Data analysis describing the observations. findings are often presented over time and in relation to the metadata collected along side the sample eg. origin, type, animal,...

A contaminant is any substance not intentionally added to food which is present in such food as a result of the production (including operations carried out in crop husbandry,...

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causative agent that has been characterised to the level (of speciation/sub-typing (e.g. sero-/phage-/ribotyping), or molecular typing) needed to link the human cases to each...

The current state of the disease in the geographical area covered. E.g. free of disease, endemic, etc.

clinical investigation in animals is considered as a selective way of sampling and results in a number of samples obtained in a passive way. The samples obtained and analysed...

import and the placing of goods under the customs procedures referred to in points (b) to (f) of Article 4(16) of Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92, as well as their entry into a free...

food specifically intended forinfants

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obtaining satisfactory or acceptable results set in Annex I in Regulation (EC) No 2073/2005 when testing against the values set for the criteria through the taking of samples,...