Risk Analysis: Risk Assessment: Microbiological Hazards

Encyclopedia of Food Safety

Volumn 1, Issue , 2014, Pages 80-92

  Ross, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Exposure assessment; Farm to fork; Food; Food safety; Hazard; Hazard identification; Microbiological risk assessment (MRA); Model; Pathogen; Probability; Risk; Risk characterization; Science based; Severity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928735695     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-378612-8.00033-0     Document Type: Chapter

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