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

Baking or stewing. A bird of this class is a mature female chicken, usually more than 10 months of age, with meat less tender than that of a roaster, or roasting chicken and nonflexible breastbone ...

Headcheese

Food (other); Food safety

A jellied product consisting predominantly of pork byproducts and seasoning ingredients. It must contain some product from the head.

Hazard

Food (other); Food safety

A biological, physical, or chemical property that may cause a food to be unsafe for human consumption.

Ham steak

Food (other); Food safety

Another name for centre cut ham slices.

Office of homeland security

Food (other); Food safety

The Office of Homeland Security was established on October 8, 2001 by President George W. Bush to develop and coordinate the implementation of a comprehensive national strategy to secure the United ...

Withdrawal time

Food (other); Food safety

A "withdrawal" period is required from the time antibiotics are administered until it is legal to slaughter the animal. This is so residues can exit the animal's system.

United States Code (USC)

Food (other); Food safety

The consolidation and codification of all the general and permanent laws of the United States. The U.S. Code is divided into 50 titles that represent broad subject areas. Title 7 is Agriculture. Each ...