A step at which control can be applied and is essential to prevent or eliminate a food safety hazard or reduce it to an acceptable level.

non-profit organization based in the U.S., created out of the joint efforts of leaders from multiple disciplines.

A system whereby the disease or infection has to be reported to the competent authority based on a legal obligation.

Personal characteristics of a person or group (e.g., age, sex, race/ethnicity, residence, and occupation) demographic information is used in descriptive epidemiology to...

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

Total characteristics displayed by an organism under a particular set of environmental factors, regardless of the actual genotype of the organism.

See "passive surveillance"

Means the process of identifying, selecting and implementing measures that can be applied to reduce the level of risk.

Odds are expressed as the probability of an event occurring divided by the probability of the event not occurring. The odds ratio is a tool to show how strongly having or not...

Food sales data measures how much of a product has been sold from the supplier side, where as food purchase data measures how much of a product has been purchased by consumers.

Products of primary production including products of the soil, of stock farming, of hunting and fishing

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

Means a measure, such as those described in various chapters of the Terrestrial Code, destined to protect animalor human health or life within the territory of the Member...

A branching chart that indicates the evolutionary lineage or genetic relatedness of organisms

A system which identifies, evaluates, and controls hazards which are significant for food safety.

Strategy based on the selection of a random sample from a subpopulation (or more frequently from subpopulations) of a population on which the data are reported. The...

Data on animals or people at a particular place by administrative or geographycal units

Small part or quantity intended to show what the whole is like.

All living organisms of a given region.

A standard operating procedure (SOP) is a set of step-by-step instructions compiled by an organization to help workers carry out complex routine operations. SOPs aim to achieve...