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food contamination
- Subject Category
- Q Food and Human Nutrition
- RDF/XML Format:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/4404.rdf
- Scope Note
- Use for the chemical, physical or biological contamination of food; For the overall process of protection against intentional contamination of the food supply USE food defense.
- Persistent URI:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/4404
- Used For
- chemical contamination of food
- contaminants in food
- contaminated food
- food contaminants
- food toxicology
- radioactive contamination of food
- Broader Term
- food safety
- Narrower Term
- egg contamination
- milk contamination
- packaging materials migration
- seafood contamination
- Related Term
- acute oral toxicity
- adulterated foods
- adulterated products
- aflatoxin M2
- aflatoxins
- antimicrobial packaging
- bacterial contamination
- cross contamination
- dietary exposure
- etiological agents
- extended shelf life
- FDA Food Safety Modernization Act
- food defense
- food fraud
- food microbiology
- food pathogens
- food quality
- food spoilage
- foodborne illness
- fungal contamination
- health hazards
- intermediate moisture foods
- microbial contamination
- microbiological guidelines
- ochratoxins
- oral exposure
- seafood-borne illness
- spoilage bacteria
- spoilage fungi
- spoilage yeast
- tamper-evident design
- tamper-resistant design
- tampering
- toxigenic strains
- viral contamination
- Spanish
- contaminación alimentaria
- Term Number
- 4404