Food safety

Food safety

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

Contributors in Food safety

Food safety

Baking or stewing. A bird of this class is a mature female chicken, usually more than 10 months of age, with meat less tender than that of a roaster, or roasting chicken and nonflexible breastbone ...

fowl

Food (other); Food safety

hickory-smoked ham

Food (other); Food safety

A cured ham which has been smoked by hanging over burning hickory wood chips in a smokehouse. The ham may not be labeled “hickory smoked” unless hickory wood has been used.

HACCP-Based Inspection Models Project (HIMP)

Food (other); Food safety

HIMP is an effort to determine how FSIS can improve the use of its online slaughter inspectors and continue to ensure the reduction and/or elimination of defects that pass through traditional ...

honey-cured

Food (other); Food safety

Honey-cured may be shown on the labeling of a cured product if honey is the only sweetening ingredient or is at least half the sweetening ingredients used, and if the honey is used in an amount ...

Humane Methods of Slaughter Act

Food (other); Food safety

This Act amended the FMIA by requiring that all meat inspected at Federal establishments by FSIS for use as human food be produced from livestock slaughtered by humane methods in accordance with the ...