The examination of commercial documents and, where appropriate, of documents required under feed or food law that are accompanying the consignment

the period of increased risk following the exposure.

Term not used in this sector

A general term for measures of association calculated from the data in a two-by-two table, including risk ratio, rate ratio, and odds ratio

No definition could be identified for this sector

Systematic, continuous or repeated process of collecting data about health and disease and their determinants in a pouplation over a defined time period.

How consistently the study results can be reproduced over time.

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 previously defined (known) disease that crosses political boundaries to occur in a country or region in which it is not currently recorded as present.

The application of methods, procedures, tests and other evaluations, in addition to monitoring to determine compliance with the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points...

A systematic and independent examination to determine whether activities and related results comply with planned arrangements and whether these arrangements are implemented...

Use of information about the probability of occurrence and the magnitude of the biological and/or economic consequence of health hazards to plan, design and/or interpret the...

Whether testing is carried out using appropriate methods with quality assurance scheme and timely and accurate delivery of results.

A monitoring system following harmonised technical specifications prepared by EFSA.

Refers to a replica. DNA molecules can be cloned using bacteria or viruses as hosts. A genetic clone can also refer to an organism that is a genetic copy of the original -...

Either the period corresponding to the period preceding the‘use by’ or the minimum durability date, as defined respectively in Articles 9 and 10 of Directive 2000/13/EC

factors that either cause a health person to become sick or cause a sick person to recover

Describes how the sample was selected from the population being monitored or surveyed (e.g. objective sampling, selective sampling, suspect sampling, convenient sampling, census)

Describes criteria, purpose, method or legislative reference used to generate a sampling event

Means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); anidentifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or...