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| |EU regulations apply directly in all Member States of the EU without the Member State having to enact national laws. | | |EU regulations apply directly in all Member States of the EU without the Member State having to enact national laws. |
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| |Feed or Feedingstuff [[File:NovelFood.jpg|25px]] | | |Feed or Feedingstuff [[File:Futtermittel.jpg|25px]] |
| |Any substance or product, including additives, whether processed, partially processed or unprocessed, intended to be used for oral feeding to animals (Commission Recommendation 2011/25/EU). | | |Any substance or product, including additives, whether processed, partially processed or unprocessed, intended to be used for oral feeding to animals (Commission Recommendation 2011/25/EU). |
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| | |Food or Foodstuff |
| | |Processed, partially processed or unprocessed product or substance intended or reasonably expected to be ingested by humans (Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002). |
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| | |Food hygiene |
| | |Five keys of food hygiene defined by WHO: 1) Prevention of contaminating food with pathogens spreading from people, pets and pests; 2) Separation of raw and cooked foods to prevent contaminating the cooked foods; 3) Cooking of foods for the appropriate length of time and at the appropriate temperature to kill pathogens; 4) Storage of food at the proper temperature; 5) Use of safe water and raw materials. |
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| | |Food safety |
| | |Food safety ensures that food consumption (according to its intended use) does not cause harm and/or foodborne illness to the consumer. Appropriate food hygiene contributes towards food safety; however the term food safety also includes the absence of harmful substances such as environmental contaminants or residues of veterinary medicinal products. |
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| | |Food supplements [[File:Nahrungsmittelerg.jpg|25px]] |
| | |Nutrients or other substances with a nutritional or physiological effect aimed to supplement the normal diet. Food supplements are usually on the market as capsules, pastilles, tablets, pills, sachets of powder, ampoules of liquids, drop dispensing bottles, and other similar forms of liquids and powders designed to be taken in measured small unit quantities (Directive 2002/46/EC). |
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| | |Genetic engineering [[File:Gentechnik.jpg|25px]] |
| | |All modern molecular biology techniques used to isolate, manipulate and transfer genes from one organism to another. |
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| | |Institutions involved in the EFSA network pursuant to Article 36 Reg. (EC) No. 178/2002 |
| | |Organisations which are approved to undertake work on behalf of EFSA (i. e. data collection, preparatory work for the development of scientific opinions or other scientific and technical support). EFSA distributes “calls for proposals” which describe EFSA's research questions that need to be answered, and “Article 36 Organisations” can apply for the “job”. An up-to-date list of the institutions involved in the EFSA network pursuant to Article 36 Reg. (EC) No. 178/2002 is available in the internet at: https://www.efsa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/assets/art36listg.pdf |
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