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Concept information
Preferred term
food safety
Type
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Topic
Definition
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The fitness of a food for human consumption.
Source: NAL Thesaurus Staff
Type: Concept definition
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- appropriate level of protection
- CAC performance criterion
- CAC performance objective
- FDA Food Safety Modernization Act
- Food and Drug Administration Food Code
- food contamination
- food defense
- food recalls
- food safety education
- food safety objective
- food sanitation
- HACCP
- microbiological criteria
- on-farm food safety
- postharvest food safety
- produce safety
Synonyms
- food control
- food protection
- food safety control
In other languages
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Spanish
URI
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/10482
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