Food safety

Food safety

Scientific practice in the handling, preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent foodborne illness.

Contributors in Food safety

Food safety

The transfer of harmful substances or disease-causing microorganisms to food by hands, food-contact surfaces, sponges, cloth towels and utensils that touch raw food, are not cleaned, and then touch ...

Critical control point

Food (other); Food safety

An operation (practice, procedure, process, or location) at or by which preventive or control measures can be exercised that will eliminate, prevent, or minimise one or more hazards. Critical control ...

Custom exempt

Food (other); Food safety

Custom exempt establishments are slaughter and processing establishments which are not subject to the routine inspection requirements of the Federal Meat Inspection Act and Poultry Products ...

Deli or delicatessen style

Food (other); Food safety

This terminology has been permitted on labelling for ready-to-eat meat food products that consumers would normally expect to find in a delicatessen.

Curing

Food (other); Food safety

Curing is the addition of salt, sodium nitrate (or saltpeter), nitrites and sometimes sugars, seasonings, phosphates and ascorbates to pork for preservation, colour development and flavour ...

Cutting up

Food (other); Food safety

Any division of any carcass or part thereof, except that the trimming of carcasses or parts thereof to remove surface contaminants is not considered as cutting up.