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    ORION sustainability roadmap

    Document with recommendations on how the ORION project results should be implemented in future European OHS practices (after end of ORION project).
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    Timeliness

    Timeliness can be defined in various ways:Usually defined as the time between any two defined steps in a surveillance system. The time points chosen are likely to vary depending...
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    Sporadic Communicable Disease

    A single case of a communicable disease long absent from a population, or caused by an agent (e.g. bacterium or virus) not previously recognized in that community or area, or...
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    Incidence Rate

    A measure of the frequency with which an event, such as a new case of illness, occurs in a population over a period of time. The denominator is the population at risk; the...
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    Feedingstuff

    See "feed"
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    Mechanical Vector

    a vector in which an agent does not undergo any development or multiplication (not biological)
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    Reasonably foreseeable Conditions

    The circumstances under which a food product is intended, known, or reasonably foreseen to be processed, stored, distributed, et cetera from farm to fork. The identification of...
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    Retail

    The handling and/or processing of food and its storage at the point of sale or delivery to the final consumer, and includes distribution terminals, catering operations, factory...
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    Phylogeny

    The evolutionary history of an organism or of a taxonomic group,e.g.a species.
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    Surveillance (General)

    Surveillance that is not focused on specific hazards and uses general tests (e.g. clinical examination or gross pathology). Syndromic surveillance is a form of general...
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    Microbiological Criterion

    Criterion defining the acceptability of a product, a batch of foodstuffs or a process, based on the absence, presence or number of microorganisms, and/or on the quantity of...
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    Feed Law

    The laws, regulations and administrative provisions governing feed in general and feed safety in particular, whether at Community or national level; it covers all stages of...
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    Incidence Rate

    The number of new cases per population at risk in a given time period.
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    Causative Agent

    The pathogen or its product, such as a toxin or bioactive amine, considered to be the cause of the food-borne outbreak.
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    Sentinel Surveillance

    No definition could be identified for this sector
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    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.
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    Passive Surveillance

    Regular reporting of disease data by all institutions that see patients (or test specimens) and are part of a reporting network. There is no active search for cases. It involves...
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    Risk-based Requirement

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    Disable

    To deprive of capability or effectiveness, especially to impair the physical abilities of.
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    Indistinguishable Causative Agent

    Causative agent that has been characterised to the level (of speciation/sub-typing (e.g. sero-/phage-/ribotyping), or molecular typing) needed to link the human cases to each...
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