Checking, by examination and the consideration of objective evidence, whether specified requirements have been fulfilled

Any substance or product, whether processed, partially processed or unprocessed, intended to be, or reasonably expected to be ingested by humans. ‘Food’ includes drink, chewing...

A criterion which separates acceptability from unacceptability.

Collaborating institutes in the One Health European Joint Programme

A collection of concepts and relationships needed to model all the data and information collected in the process of surveillance, including surveillance inputs, methods, and...

Quantitative variable or qualitative factor that provides a simple and reliable means to measure achievement, to reflect the changes connected to activities, or to help assess...

Use of prior or additional information about the probability of hazard occurrence to revise the surveillance intensity required to achieve the stated surveillance purpose.

Two or more samples each representing the sampling unit are merged into one sample for microbiological analysis.

Infrastructure necessary to create open, web-based knowledge repositories (domain-specific Knowledge Bases and the One Health Surveillance Knowledge Hub), a project website, a...

Any disease and/or infection that is naturally transmissible directly or indirectly between animals and humans

Bioinformatic analyses invariably involve shepherding files through a series of transformations, called a pipeline or a workflow.

vector-borne zoonotic disease, spread by Tsetse flies, can be found in humans and animals

The identification and implementation of policies and activities to avoid or minimize the likelihood and/or impact of ongoing or potential zoonotic disease events. In practice,...

The ability of microorganisms of certain species to survive or even grow in the presence of a given concentration of an antimicrobial agent that is usually sufficient to inhibit...

detection of a parasite by feeding a suitable intermediate host (such as an insect) on supposedly infected material (such as blood) and later examining the host for the parasite

All the observable characteristics of an organism that result from the interaction of its genotype (total genetic inheritance) with the environment. Examples of observable...

The aspect of epidemiology concerned with why and how a health problem occurs. Analytic epidemiology uses comparison groups to provide baseline or expected values so that...

the stage in the parasite life cycle at which it is able to initiate infection of its host(s).

Dataset format includes information on individual records related to a disease/health event

Describes the type of information that will be obtained (using a particular surveillance activity) about a health hazard. The options are early detection/warning of known...