文档介绍:ABBREVIATIONS & ACRONYMS
ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS
Abbreviation/
Acronym Definition
ARS: USDA's Agricultural Research Service
CDC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CFSAN: FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
CFU: Colony forming unit
CSFII: USDA’s Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals
EGR: Exponential Growth Rate
FDA: US DHHS’s Food and Drug Administration
FSIS: USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service
GMP: Good Manufacturing Practice
P: Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point
IP: Intraperitoneal
LD50: The 50 % Lethal Dose (See Glossary)
LLO: Listeriolysin O (see Glossary)
NACMCF: National mittee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods
NAS: National Academy of Sciences
NFS: Not further specified; a term used by CSFII
NHANES III: Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
PFGE: Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis
RAC: The interagency Risk Assessment Consortium
RTE: Ready-to-Eat
SSOP: Sanitation Standard Operating Procedure
UHT: Ultra high temperature
US DHHS: United States Department of Health and Human Services
USDA: United States Department of Agriculture
WHO: World anization
Draft Listeria monocytogenes Risk Assessment
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GLOSSARY
GLOSSARY
Term Definition
Antibody titer: A measure of the activity of an antibody solution.
Antibody: A protein capable of specifically re