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.

Technical infrastructure to share data

are measures of a drugs minimum inhibitory concentration distribution that separate bacterial populations into those representative of a wild type population, and those with...

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food (or foodstuff) that is suspected of causing human cases.

A step which examines the characteristics of a (pathogen) which affect its transmission and pathogenicity

Significance tests in which the null hypothesis is that samples differ to a prescribed degree. A significant result of an equivalence test comparing the effects of two...

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

personal characteristics of a person or group (e.g., age, sex, race/ethnicity, residence, and occupation) demographic information is used in descriptive epidemiology to...

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Surveillance that is not focused on specific hazards and uses general tests (e.g. clinical examination or gross pathology). Syndromic surveillance is a form of general...

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the aspect of epidemiology concerned with organizing and summarizing data regarding the persons affected (e.g., the characteristics of those who became ill), time (e.g., when...

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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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