A system of surveillance which aims to routinely collect additional/supplementary information pertinent to the disease, such as exposure information.

A substance, such as an antibiotic, that kills or stops the growth of microbes, including bacteria, fungi, or viruses. Antimicrobials are grouped according to the microbes they...

how sequencing works in most NGS methods, a single library fragment is amplified and copied in a physically isolated location.

An incidence, observed under given circumstances, of two or more human cases of the same disease and/or infection, or a situation in which the observed number of human cases...

a systematic and independent examination to determine whether activities and related results comply with planned arrangements and whether these arrangements are implemented...

a container that is designed and intended to be secure against the entry of hazards

a statistically significant association between zoonosis in a foodstuff and an infected human/ animal/ batch in an analytical epidemiological study

one of several methods of agglomerative hierarchical clustering. At the beginning of the process, each element is in a cluster of its own. The clusters are then sequentially...

The laws, regulations and administrative provisions governing food in general, and food safety in particular, whether at Community or national level; it covers any stage of...

The period between inoculation and appearance of visible symptoms.

are measures of a drugs minimum inhibitory concentration distribution that separate bacterial populations into those representative of a wild type population, and those with...

Aggregations of relatively uncommon events or diseases in space and/or time in amounts that are believed or perceived to be from a common source.

Data standards are documented agreements on representation, format, definition, structuring, tagging, transmission, manipulation, use, and management of data.

Criteria used to categorise output for decision making at any stage of the surveillance process

Provides well-defined guarantees for fitness, accuracy, and consistency for any of various kinds of user input into an application or automated system. Data validation checks...

A communicable disease is an illness due to a specific infectious (biological) agent or its toxic products capable of being directly or indirectly transmitted from...

the central authority of a Member State competent for the organisation of official controls or any other authority to which that competence has been conferred; it shall also...

Any undertaking, whether for profit or not and whether public or private, carrying out any of the activities related to any stage of production, processing and distribution of...

Any action and activity that can be used to prevent or eliminate a food safety hazard or reduce it to an acceptable level.

consist of a fixed set of conserved species specific genes