Effectiveness of microbiologic criteria for the safety of foods of animal origin

摘要

definition, a criterion may be thought of as a yardstick on which a judgment or decision may be made. Thus, a microbiologic criterion stipulates that a type of microorganism, group of organisms, or the toxins produced must not be present, be present in only a limited number of samples, or be present at less than a specified number or amount in or on a product. In June 1996, the Codex Alimentarius Commission adopted a document in which the definition for a microbiologic criterion for food was stated as "the acceptability of a process, a product or a food lot, based on the absence or presence, or number of organisms, and/or quantity of their toxins/metabolites, per unit(s) of mass, volume, area or lot."