Food safety

Food safety

Scientific practice in the handling, preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent foodborne illness.

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Food safety

farm-to-table continuum

Food (other); Food safety

A multi-step journey that food travels before it is consumed.

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) of 1938

Food (other); Food safety

P.L. 75-717 (June 25, 1938) is the basic authority intended to ensure that foods are pure and wholesome, safe to eat, and produced under sanitary conditions; that drugs and devices are safe and ...

Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 (FMIA)

Enacted June 30, 1906, as chapter 3913, 34 Stat. 674, and substantially amended by the Wholesome Meat Act 1967 (P.L. 90-201), requires USDA to inspect all cattle, sheep, swine, goats, and horses when ...

Federal Register

Food (other); Food safety

A federal document containing current Presidential orders or directives, agency regulations, proposed agency rules, notices and other documents that are required by statute to be published for wide ...

Fight Bac!® Campaign

Food (other); Food safety

A national public education project by the Partnership for Food Safety Education, which bring together industry, government, and consumer groups to educate Americans about the importance of using ...

flash pasteurization

Food (other); Food safety

A pasteurization process which involves a high temperature, short-time treatment in which pourable products, such as juices, are heated for three to 15 seconds to a temperature that destroys harmful ...

food additive

Food (other); Food safety

Any substance or mixture of substances other than the basic foodstuff present in a food as a result of any phase of production, processing, packaging, storage, transport or handling. USDA allows food ...