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,...

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Aggregations of relatively uncommon events or diseases in space and/or time in amounts that are believed or perceived to be greater than could be expected by chance.

A change in the morphology, physiology, growth, development, reproduction or life span of an organism, system, or (sub)population that results in an impairment of functional...

Passive clinical and laboratory surveillance systems that are enhanced by sentinel surveillance and/or community-based surveillance strategies that rely on a wider range of...

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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The occurrence of more cases of disease than expected in a given area or among a specific group of people over a particular period of time.

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The current state of the disease in the geographical area covered. E.g. free of disease, endemic, etc.

The determination of the relationship between the magnitude of exposure (dose) to a chemical, biological or physical agent and the severity and/or frequency of associated...

Any action to be taken when the results of monitoring at the CCP indicate a loss of control.

antimicrobials are classified in several ways, including: spectrum of activity, effect on bacteria and mode of action

the ability of microorganisms of certain species to survive or even grow in the presence of a given concentration of an antimicrobial agent that is usually sufficient to inhibit...

The current state of the disease in the geographical area covered. E.g. free of disease, endemic, etc.

Strain differentiation by determining the number different alleles in a predefined set of loci that represents core genes.

Breakpoints are discriminatory antimicrobial concentrations used in the interpretation of results of susceptibility testing to define isolates as susceptible, intermediate or...

The qualitative and/or quantitative evaluation of the nature of the adverse health effects associated with biological, chemical and physical agents, which may be present in food.

clinical investigation in animals is considered as a selective way of sampling and results in a number of samples obtained in a passive way. The samples obtained and analysed...