A set of uniformly applied criteria for determining whether an individual should be identified as having a particular disease, injury, or other health condition. In...

the ultimate consumer of a foodstuff who will not use the food as part of any foodbusiness operation or activity

An emergency preparedness plan specific to a single zoonotic disease.

a description established by the animal owner, food producer or competent authority containing general information on the structure and organisation of its control systems

The ability of a microbe (germ) to resist the effects of a drug. Antimicrobial-resistant germs are not killed by the drugs that are typically used against them and may continue...

A pathogen present in food, which may cause human disease(s) or illness through consumption of food contaminated with the pathogen and / or the biological products produced by...

The process of collecting and evaluating information on hazards and conditions leading to their presence to decide which are significant for food safety and therefore should be...

Any action to be taken when the results of monitoring at the CCP indicate a loss of control.

A group of people/animals/food stuff in the population with a higher-than expected risk for developing a particular disease/harbouring the hazard, which may be defined on a...

monitoring of laboratory confirmed cases

An infectious disease transmissible (as from person to person) by direct contact with an affected individual or the individual's discharges or by indirect means (as by a vector).

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Breakpoints are discriminatory antimicrobial concentrations used in the interpretation of results of susceptibility testing to define isolates as susceptible, intermediate or...

Reports of specific diseases from health care providers to public health officials (the information obtained is standardized and structured)

The number of new cases within a specified time period divided by the size of the population initially at risk.

A consignment is a quantity of some commodity delivered at one time. It may consist in either a portion of a lot, either a set of several lots.

any unit of a food business

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