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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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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
Food (other); Food safety
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 ...
