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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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Zero tolerance
Food (other); Food safety
In food safety policy, a "zero tolerance" standard generally means that if a potentially dangerous substance (whether microbiological, chemical, or other) is present in or on a product, that product ...
Vertical integration
Food (other); Food safety
The integrating of successive stages of the production and marketing functions under the ownership or control of a single management organization. For example, much of the broiler industry is highly ...
Risk assessment
Food (other); Food safety
The process of estimating the severity and likelihood of harm to human health or the environment occurring from exposure to a substance or activity that, under plausible circumstances, can cause harm ...
Pasteurisation
Food (other); Food safety
The process of destroying microorganisms that could disease. This is usually done by applying heat to food. Three processes used to pasteurise foods are flash pasteurization, steam pasteurization, ...
Standards of identity for food
Food (other); Food safety
Mandatory, federally-set requirements that determine what a food product must contain in order to be marketed under a certain name in interstate commerce. Mandatory standards (which differ from ...
Scrapie
Food (other); Food safety
A fatal, degenerative neurological disease of sheep and goats. Belonging to a family of diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), scrapie is similar to bovine spongiform ...
