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Food safety
Scientific practice in the handling, preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent foodborne illness.
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quantitative risk assessment
Food (other); Food safety
A risk assessment that uses modeling to determine the probability(s) of what can go wrong, how likely it is to happen, and how severe is the health impact. The results are stated in numerical terms, ...
product
Food (other); Food safety
Any carcass, meat, meat by-product, or meat food product, capable of use as human food.
squab
Food (other); Food safety
A squab is a fledging pigeon, of either sex that has not flown yet. Effective April 26, 2001, establishments processing squabs will be inspected pursuant to the Poultry Products Inspection Act.
surveillance
Food (other); Food safety
A system of monitoring the health of the population, which is used to prevent foodborne illness outbreaks from increasing.
survey
Food (other); Food safety
A tool used by epidemiologists to understand the state of health of the population or to identify the source of a foodborne outbreak.
recall scope
Food (other); Food safety
This defines the amount and kind of product in question. For example, all products produced under a single HACCP plan between performance of complete cleaning and sanitation procedures (clean up to ...
stock recovery
Food (other); Food safety
A firm’s removal or correction of product that has not been marketed or that has not left the direct control of the firm. For example, product is located on premises owned by, or under the control ...
