- Industry: Government
- Number of terms: 41534
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A sporadic and rare, but fatal human disease that usually strikes people over 65. It occurs worldwide at an estimated rate of one case per million population. About 10-15% of CJD cases are inherited. A small number of cases occurred as the result of various medical treatments or procedures which inadvertently transferred the CJD agent. In March 1996, the British government announced a possible link between bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and CJD. The announcement was prompted by the discovery of several atypical cases of CJD in Great Britain.
Industry:Food (other)
An operation (practice, procedure, process, or location) at or by which preventive or control measures can be exercised that will eliminate, prevent, or minimize one or more hazards. Critical control points are fundamental to Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) systems.
Industry:Food (other)
The transfer of harmful substances or disease-causing microorganisms to food by hands, food-contact surfaces, sponges, cloth towels and utensils that touch raw food, are not cleaned, and then touch ready-to-eat foods. Cross contamination can also occur when raw food touches or drips onto cooked or ready-to-eat foods.
Industry:Food (other)
A chemical agent placed in or on meat or poultry for use in preservation, flavor, or color.
Industry:Food (other)
Curing is the addition of salt, sodium nitrate (or saltpeter), nitrites and sometimes sugars, seasonings, phosphates and ascorbates to pork for preservation, color development and flavor enhancement.
Industry:Food (other)
Custom exempt establishments are slaughter and processing establishments which are not subject to the routine inspection requirements of the Federal Meat Inspection Act and Poultry Products Inspection Act, provided the specified operations meet the exemption requirements of Section 23 of the FMIA and section 15 of the PIA.
Industry:Food (other)
Any division of any carcass or part thereof, except that the trimming of carcasses or parts thereof to remove surface contaminants is not considered as cutting up.
Industry:Food (other)
The body (cadaver) of livestock which has died otherwise than by slaughter.
Industry:Food (other)
The Delaney Clause in the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) states that no additive shall be deemed to be safe for human food if it is found to induce cancer in man or animals. It is an example of the zero tolerance concept in food safety policy. The Delaney prohibition appears in three separate parts of the FFDCA: Section 409 on food additives; Section 512, relating to animal drugs in meat and poultry; and Section 721 on color additives. The Section 409 prohibition applied to many pesticide residues until enactment of the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996. This legislation removed pesticide residue tolerances from Delaney Clause constraints.
Industry:Food (other)
This terminology has been permitted on labeling for ready-to-eat meat food products that consumers would normally expect to find in a delicatessen.
Industry:Food (other)
