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enhanced surveillance system
A system of surveillance which aims to routinely collect additional/supplementary information pertinent to the disease, such as exposure information. -
antimicrobial
A substance, such as an antibiotic, that kills or stops the growth of microbes, including bacteria, fungi, or viruses. Antimicrobials are grouped according to the microbes they... -
cluster amplification
how sequencing works in most NGS methods, a single library fragment is amplified and copied in a physically isolated location. -
foodborne outbreak
An incidence, observed under given circumstances, of two or more human cases of the same disease and/or infection, or a situation in which the observed number of human cases... -
audit
a systematic and independent examination to determine whether activities and related results comply with planned arrangements and whether these arrangements are implemented... -
hermetically sealed container
a container that is designed and intended to be secure against the entry of hazards -
analytical epidemiological evidence
a statistically significant association between zoonosis in a foodstuff and an infected human/ animal/ batch in an analytical epidemiological study -
complete linkage clustering
one of several methods of agglomerative hierarchical clustering. At the beginning of the process, each element is in a cluster of its own. The clusters are then sequentially... -
food law
The laws, regulations and administrative provisions governing food in general, and food safety in particular, whether at Community or national level; it covers any stage of... -
epidemiological cut-off values
are measures of a drugs minimum inhibitory concentration distribution that separate bacterial populations into those representative of a wild type population, and those with... -
epidemiological cluster
Aggregations of relatively uncommon events or diseases in space and/or time in amounts that are believed or perceived to be from a common source. -
data standard
Data standards are documented agreements on representation, format, definition, structuring, tagging, transmission, manipulation, use, and management of data. -
decision (tree) algorithm
Criteria used to categorise output for decision making at any stage of the surveillance process -
data validation
Provides well-defined guarantees for fitness, accuracy, and consistency for any of various kinds of user input into an application or automated system. Data validation checks... -
communicable disease
A communicable disease is an illness due to a specific infectious (biological) agent or its toxic products capable of being directly or indirectly transmitted from... -
competent authority
the central authority of a Member State competent for the organisation of official controls or any other authority to which that competence has been conferred; it shall also... -
food business
Any undertaking, whether for profit or not and whether public or private, carrying out any of the activities related to any stage of production, processing and distribution of... -
control measure
Any action and activity that can be used to prevent or eliminate a food safety hazard or reduce it to an acceptable level.
