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Food safety
Scientific practice in the handling, preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent foodborne illness.
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Public health
Food (other); Food safety
The science and the art of 1) preventing disease; 2) prolonging life; and organised community efforts for a) the sanitation of the environment; b) the control of communicable infections; c) the ...
Veal
Food (other); Food safety
The meat from a calf or young beef animal. Male dairy calves are used in the veal industry. Dairy cows must give birth to continue producing milk, but male dairy calves are of little or no value to ...
Recall classifications
Food (other); Food safety
FSIS assesses the public health concern or hazard presented by a product being recalled, or considered for recall, whether firm-initiated or requested by FSIS, and classifies the concern as one of ...
Organic farming
Food (other); Food safety
An approach to farming based on biological methods that avoid the use of synthetic crop or livestock production inputs; also a broadly defined philosophical approach to farming that puts value on ...
Prosciutto ham
Food (other); Food safety
An Italian-style dry cured raw ham; not smoked; often coated with pepper. Prosciutto can be eaten raw because of the way it is processed.
Squab
Food (other); Food safety
A squab is a fledging pigeon, of either sex that has not flown yet. Effective April 26, 2001, establishments processing squabs will be inspected pursuant to the Poultry Products Inspection Act.
Pesticide Data programme (PDP)
Food (other); Food safety
A programme initiated in 1991 by the Agricultural Marketing Service to collect pesticide residue data on selected food commodities, primarily fruits and vegetables. PDP data are used by the ...
