Food safety

Food safety

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

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sanitation

Food (other); Food safety

The act of maintaining a clean condition in a food-handling situation in order to prevent disease and other potentially harmful contaminants.

tallow

Food (other); Food safety

The white nearly tasteless solid rendered fat of cattle and sheep used chiefly in soap, candles, and lubricants.

A risk assessment that is based on qualitative data or giving a qualitative result. The results are often stated in an estimated range, such as “there is a moderate to high risk of a certain outcome ...

young turkey

Food (other); Food safety

A turkey, usually under eight months of age, that is tender-meated with soft, pliable, smooth-textured skin, and breastbone cartilage that is somewhat less flexible than in a fryer-roaster turkey.

variant creutzfeldt-jakob disease (vCJD)

Food (other); Food safety

vCJD is a variant of the most commonly identified TSE in humans, classic (sporadic) Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD). Scientific evidence supports a causal relationship between BSE outbreaks in Europe ...

risk communication

Food (other); Food safety

Exchanges of information among risk assessors, risk managers, other stakeholders, and the public about levels of health or environmental risk, the significance and meaning of those risks, and the ...