An analytical method, agreed upon as the best method for a certain analyte in a certain matrix, to which alternative methods shoul be compared. The standard culture procedures...

Samples selected in a non-probabilistic sampling strategy based on the feasibility or ease of collection. It's a non-random sampling. The data reported refer themselves to units...

pure culture of an organism

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

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,...

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...

number of target organisms present in a defined volume/weight/area of a sample

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 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...

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

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.

A contiguous segment of the genome made by joining overlapping clones or sequences. A clone contig consists of a group of cloned (copied) pieces of DNA representing overlapping...

a substance produced by or derived from a microorganism, which destroys or inhibits the growth of other microorganisms.

the technical procedure for detection of an analyte and generation of a laboratory result

number of target organisms present in a defined volume/weight/area of a sample

The use of appropriate data sources and collection methods including automation of data collection where appropriate and the existence of a case definition and a data collection...

part of the genetic makeup of a cell, and therefore of any individual, which determines one of its characteristics (phenotype). Genotype is one of three factors that determine...