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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 security
Food (other); Food safety
Access by all people at all times to enough food for an active healthy life. Food security at a minimum includes the ready availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food, and an assured ability ...
National Food Safety Initiative
Food (other); Food safety
A 1997 interagency initiative among the Food and Drug Administration, centre for Disease Control, Environmental Protection Agency, and U.S. Department of Agriculture to implement a series of ...
Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)
Food (other); Food safety
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is the public health agency in the U.S. Department of Agriculture responsible for ensuring that the nation's commercial supply of meat, poultry, and egg ...
Foot and mouth disease (FMD)
Food (other); Food safety
A highly contagious viral disease of cattle and swine, as well as sheep, goats, deer, and other cloven-hoofed ruminants. Although rarely transmissible to humans, FMD is devastating to livestock and ...
The Food Safety Educator
Food (other); Food safety
The Food Safety Educator is a free quarterly newsletter published by FSIS' Food Safety Education Staff that reports on new food safety educational programmes and materials as well as emerging science ...
Food thermometer
Food (other); Food safety
A special device that measures the internal temperature of cooked foods, such as meat, poultry, and any combination dishes to ensure that a safe food temperature is reached.
Foodborne outbreak
Food (other); Food safety
The occurrence of two or more people experiencing the same illness after eating the same food.
