a group or set of identifiable products obtained from a given process under practically identical circumstances and produced in a given place within one defined production period

obtaining satisfactory or acceptable results set in Annex I in Regulation (EC) No 2073/2005 when testing against the values set for the criteria through the taking of samples,...

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dietary food for special medical purposes, as defined in Commission Directive 1999/21/EC

A contaminant is any substance not intentionally added to food which is present in such food as a result of the production (including operations carried out in crop husbandry,...

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direct (e.g. culture) or indirect (e.g. serological) identification of the causative agent in clinical samples taken from outbreak cases.

Assurance that food will not cause harm to the consumer when it is prepared and/or eaten according to its intended use.

Differences in health status or in the distribution of health determinants between different population groups.

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The number of new cases of a disease that occur in a population in a particular geographical area within a given period of time.

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Means a group of animals with a defined epidemiological relationship that share approximately the same likelihood of exposure to a pathogenic agent. This may be because they...

a series of lots produced, manufactured or commercialised on a continuous manner, under conditions presumed uniform. The inspection of a continuous series of lots can only be...

criterion defining the acceptability of a product or a batch of foodstuff applicable to products placed on the market.

In disease surveillance, a specific procedure to detect as early as possible any departure from usual or normally observed frequency of phenomena.

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the natural or legal persons responsible for ensuring that the requirements of food law are met within the feed business under their control