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

Any substance or mixture of substances other than the basic foodstuff present in a food as a result of any phase of production, processing, packaging, storage, transport or handling. USDA allows food ...

Food Biosecurity Action Team (F-BAT)

Food (other); Food safety

The USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety formed the Food Biosecurity Action Team (F-BAT) to coordinate and facilitate all activities pertaining to biosecurity, countering terrorism, and emergency ...

Food and Agriculture organisation of the United Nations (FAO)

Food (other); Food safety

A UN organization, founded in 1945, that collects and disseminates information about world agriculture. FAO also provides technical assistance to developing countries in agricultural production and ...

Food code

Food (other); Food safety

The code, published by the Food and Drug Administration, consists of model requirements for safeguarding public health that may be adopted and used by various parts of local, state, and federal ...

Flash pasteurisation

Food (other); Food safety

A pasteurisation process which involves a high temperature, short-time treatment in which pourable products, such as juices, are heated for three to 15 seconds to a temperature that destroys harmful ...

Food isolate

Food (other); Food safety

A microorganism that is derived from food for the purpose of identifying or characterising it.

Log reduction

Food (other); Food safety

"Log" stands for logarithm, which is the exponent of 10. For example, log2 represents 102 or 10 x 10 or 100. Log reduction stands for a 10-fold or one decimal or 90% reduction in numbers of ...