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food intended for special medical purposes
dietary food for special medical purposes, as defined in Commission Directive 1999/21/EC -
contaminant
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,... -
detection in human cases
direct (e.g. culture) or indirect (e.g. serological) identification of the causative agent in clinical samples taken from outbreak cases. -
food safety
Assurance that food will not cause harm to the consumer when it is prepared and/or eaten according to its intended use. -
health inequalities
Differences in health status or in the distribution of health determinants between different population groups. -
incidence
The number of new cases of a disease that occur in a population in a particular geographical area within a given period of time. -
epidemiological unit
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... -
continous series of lots
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... -
food safety criterion
criterion defining the acceptability of a product or a batch of foodstuff applicable to products placed on the market. -
early warning system
In disease surveillance, a specific procedure to detect as early as possible any departure from usual or normally observed frequency of phenomena. -
feed business operator
the natural or legal persons responsible for ensuring that the requirements of food law are met within the feed business under their control -
hazard analysis
In public health risk assessment: The qualitative or quantitative estimation of the likelihood of adverse effects that may result from exposure to specified health hazards or... -
concentration of pathogens
number of target organisms present in a defined volume/weight/area of a sample
