Food safety

Food safety

Scientific practice in the handling, preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent foodborne illness.

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Food safety

Foodborne illnesses

Food (other); Food safety

Illnesses caused by pathogens that enter the human body through foods.

HACCP-Based Inspection Models Project (HIMP)

Food (other); Food safety

HIMP is an effort to determine how FSIS can improve the use of its online slaughter inspectors and continue to ensure the reduction and/or elimination of defects that pass through traditional ...

Humane Methods of Slaughter Act

This Act amended the FMIA by requiring that all meat inspected at Federal establishments by FSIS for use as human food be produced from livestock slaughtered by humane methods in accordance with the ...

Hydrolyzed protein

Food (other); Food safety

Flavour enhancers that can be used in meat and poultry products. They are made from protein obtained from a plant source such as soy or wheat, or from an animal source, such as milk. The source used ...

Incidental additives

Food (other); Food safety

As defined in the Food and Drug Administration regulations (21 CFR 101.100(a)(3)), incidental additives are substances present in foods at insignificant levels that do not serve a technical or ...

Inhumane slaughter

Food (other); Food safety

Slaughter of livestock that is not in accordance with the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act of 1978 and FSIS regulations promulgated to enforce the Act. Inadequate methods to prevent pain and suffering ...

Honey-cured

Food (other); Food safety

Honey-cured may be shown on the labelling of a cured product if honey is the only sweetening ingredient or is at least half the sweetening ingredients used, and if the honey is used in an amount ...