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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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Food safety

Marinade

Food (other); Food safety

A savoury acidic sauce in which a food is soaked to enrich its flavour or to tenderise it. Marinade consists of a cooking oil, an acid (vinegar, lemon juice, wine), and spices. As the food stands in ...

Market withdrawal

Food (other); Food safety

A firm's removal or correction by its own volition of a distributed product that involves a minor infraction that would not warrant legal action by FSIS, or that involves no violation of the FMIA or ...

Lamb

Food (other); Food safety

Meat from sheep less than one year old. If the phrase "Spring Lamb" is on a meat label, it means the lamb was produced between March and October.

Listeria

Food (other); Food safety

Listeria monocytogenes, a pathogenic bacterium that can be carried in a variety of foods such as dairy products, red meat, poultry, seafood, and vegetables.

Mad cow disease

Food (other); Food safety

The common term used for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE).

Lard

Food (other); Food safety

Lard is the fat rendered from clean and sound edible tissues from swine.

Livestock

Food (other); Food safety

Cattle, sheep, swine, goat, horse, mule, or other equine.

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