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Appendix G: Glossary of Terms and Acronyms
Pages 99-102

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... CDC Centers for Disease Control, Public Health Service CHEMICAL Includes any of the following: pesticides, agricultural RESIDUES chemicals, heavy metals, antimicrobials, mycotoxins, and other metabolites, exogenous hormones, and growth stimulants CLEANLINESS Sanitation and reasonable freedom from contamination or extraneous material involving food products, including meat, and all items having contact with these products CMS CSRS CUSUM Consumer Marketing Service of USDA Cooperative State Research Service of USDA Cumulative Sum -- A statistical procedure developed by FSIS for use with SIS-C that compares the output of a process against finished product standards to determine compliance 99
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... Standards used with SIS-C to define criteria that the product must meet to avoid the risk of having to rework the product Food Safety and Inspection Service (formerly FSQS, Food Safety and Quality Serviced of USDA Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point Program Institute of Medicine of the NAS An abnormal change in structure of an organ or part due to injury Or c .lsease MICROBIAL CONTAMINANTS on, or cause infection, by contact or association Includes microorganisms (e.g., bacteria and viruses) that intrude MPI NAHMS NAS Meat and Poultry Inspection Division of USDA National Animal Health Monitoring System of APHIS National Academy of Sciences 100
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... In general, meat quality is identified by the USDA Meat Grading Service and is designated as USDA Prime, Choice, Select, Standard, Commercial, Utility, Cutter, and Canner for beef Reprocessing the product to correct the condition or conditions causing the nonconformances Refers to the condition of meat and food indicating freedom from harmful ingredients or organisms that could be a hazard to human health. NO raw food products are completely sterile or free of all possible organisms or chemicals 101
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... Meat inspection is performed by the USDA-FSIS, which identifies what is acceptable to be classified as U.S. inspected and passed Diseases transmissible from animals to humans.
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Key Terms

  • entire slaughter
  • food safety
  • dressing process
  • nutrition board
  • food products

  • finished product
  • slaughter dressing
  • control standards
  • usda prime
  • health inspection

  • usda hazard
  • iom finished
  • slaughtering facilities
  • cooperative state
  • exogenous hormones

  • usda cooperative
  • including meat
  • edible products
  • growth stimulants
  • traditional cattle

  • grading service
  • inspection sentence
  • food product
  • involving food
  • beef carcass

  • consumer marketing
  • partial quality
  • lesion food
  • procedure developed
  • indicating freedom


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