Refers to the maximum allowable numerical values and/or proportions which can be used by competent authorities or food business operators (FBO) to derive a microbiological...

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...

Assurance that food is acceptable for human consumption according to its intended use.

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.

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

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A study involving a sample of units selected from a larger well-delineated population. This (target) population is the entire set of units to which the findings of the survey...

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The description of the food safety problem and its context.

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

People particularly suceptible to infection (YOPI-young, old, pregnant, immunocompromised)

Investigation to follow the movement of a food product and its constituents through the stages of production, processing and distribution, both backward and forward. Trace-back...

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See "physical check"

Import and the placing of goods under the customs procedures referred to in points (b) to (f) of Article 4(16) of Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92, as well as their entry into a free...

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,...

Passive monitoring programme of zoonotic agents or antimicrobial resistance that includes information from diagnostic testing, or a representative selection of this information....

Descriptive epidemiological evidence refers to generation of hypotheses concerning the food vehicle of an outbreak by systematic collection of information on outbreak cases,...