Any action to be taken when the results of Public Health risk assessment indicate loss of control.

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...

The qualitative and/or quantitative evaluation of the likely intake of biological, chemical, and physical agents via food as well as exposures from other sources if relevant.

any substance or product, including additives, whether processed, partially processed or unprocessed, intended to be used for oral feeding to animals

a description established by the animal owner, food producer or competent authority containing general information on the structure and organisation of its control systems

the ultimate consumer of a foodstuff who will not use the food as part of any foodbusiness operation or activity

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...

Food-borne zoonotic diseases are caused by consuming food or drinking water contaminated by pathogenic (disease-causing) micro-organisms such as bacteria and their toxins,...

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like single linkage but considering the longest distance between entries in the clusters.

pure culture of an organism

number of cases one case generates on average over the course of its infectious period, in an otherwise uninfected population

outbreak where all the human cases live in one single household

Failure to meet a critical limit.

the examination of any aspect of feed, food, animal health and animal welfare in order to verify that such aspect(s) comply with the legal requirements of feed and food law and...

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An aggregation of cases in a circumscribed area during a particular period without regard to whether the number of cases is more than expected (often the expected number is not...

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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

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,...