* Food safety: Ensuring that the food supply is free of contamination.

Preparation, handling, and storage of food are other considerations in food safety.

Washing of hands and surfaces, and avoidance of cross-contamination are good practices in food safety.

* Agriculture and Fisheries ( Agrifish ): One of the oldest configurations, this brings together once a month the ministers for agriculture and fisheries, and the commissioners responsible for agriculture, fisheries, food safety, veterinary questions and public health matters.

Food safety and food security are monitored by agencies like the International Association for Food Protection, World Resources Institute, World Food Programme, Food and Agriculture Organization, and International Food Information Council.

Similarly, dried foods also promote food safety.

Computer-based control systems, sophisticated processing and packaging methods, and logistics and distribution advances can enhance product quality, improve food safety, and reduce costs.

Recommended measures for ensuring food safety include maintaining a clean preparation area with foods of different types kept separate, ensuring an adequate cooking temperature, and refrigerating foods promptly after cooking.

Hurdle technology has been defined by Leistner ( 2000 ) as an intelligent combination of hurdles which secures the microbial safety and stability as well as the organoleptic and nutritional quality and the economic viability of food products.

The FDA is responsible for protecting and promoting public health through the regulation and supervision of food safety, tobacco products, dietary supplements, prescription and over-the-counter pharmaceutical drugs ( medications ), vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, blood transfusions, medical devices, electromagnetic radiation emitting devices ( ERED ), and veterinary products.

With the increasing use of processed foods since the 19th century, there has been a great increase in the use of food additives of varying levels of safety.

Apart from testing and analyzing food products during the whole production process to ensure safety and compliance with regulatory standards, trading standards officers ( in the UK ) protect the public from any illegal use or potentially dangerous mis-use of food additives by performing random testing of food products.

For example, a crop not intended for food use is generally not reviewed by authorities responsible for food safety.

In April 2011, EFSA ’ s experts updated their scientific advice on the safety of food irradiation.

In its comprehensive advice to EU policy makers, The EFSA BIOHAZ Panel looked at the efficacy and microbiological safety of the process, and the CEF Panel looked at possible risks arising from the formation of chemical substances as a result of food irradiation.

A summary of their findings and recommendations, was published, as were two detailed reports ; one on the chemical safety, of food irradiation and the other on the efficacy and microbiological safety, of food irradiation.

Consumer organizations, environmentalist groups, and opponents to food irradiation refer to some studies suggesting that a large part of the public questions the safety of irradiated foods, and will not buy foods that have been irradiated.

On the other hand, other studies indicate the number of consumers concerned about the safety of irradiated food has decreased in the last 10 years and continues to be less than the number of those concerned about pesticide residues, microbiological contamination, and other food related concerns.

The convention, for the first time in the history of international aviation law, recognizes certain powers and immunities of the aircraft commander who on international flights may restrain any person ( s ) he has reasonable cause to believe is committing or is about to commit an offense liable to interfere with the safety of persons or property on board or who is jeopardizing good order and discipline.

It may be applied, as it is stated in article 1 of the convention in case of: offenses against penal law ; acts which, whether or not they are offenses, may or do jeopardize the safety of the aircraft or of persons or property therein or which jeopardize good order and discipline on board.

The replacement work will be done at night, and will require lane closures or closing of the entire tunnel for safety, and may take up to 2 years to complete.

It has recently come to be known as an " extreme sport " by some ( though not commonly considered as such by its practitioners, who may dislike the term for its perceived connotation of disregard for safety ).

* Following a safety, the scoring team may choose for play to resume in either of the above ways, or it may choose to kick off from its own 35-yard line.

An alternative for those people may however be sailing near the coast, which still gives a certain amount of safety.

Also, safety concerns about digoxin therapy, increased mortality in women, also may have contributed to this decrease in its use.

In the State of New York, health and safety regulations restrict the quantity of black powder a person may store and transport.

Players are permitted to play the ball with the flat of the ' face side ' and with the edges of the head and handle of the field hockey stick with the exception that, for reasons of safety, the ball may not be struck ' hard ' with a forehand edge stroke, because of the difficulty of controlling the height and direction of the ball from that stroke.

The manifest purpose of the tale may primarily be one of mundane instruction regarding forest safety or secondarily a cautionary tale about the dangers of famine to large families, but its latent meaning may evoke a strong emotional response due to the widely understood themes and motifs such as “ The Terrible Mother ”, “ Death ,” and “ Atonement with the Father .”

Bel Geddes expounds upon his design in his book Magic Motorways, stating, “ Futurama is a large-scale model representing almost every type of terrain in America and illustrating how a motorway system may be laid down over the entire country – across mountains, over rivers and lakes, through cities and past towns – never deviating from a direct course and always adhering to the four basic principles of highway design: safety, comfort, speed and economy .” He had acknowledged this in the belief that “ A free-flowing movement of people and goods across our nation is a requirement of modern living and prosperity .”

( Firearm rounds may be dangerous or lethal well beyond their accurate range ; minimum distance for safety is much greater than specified range.

For instance, a handler may think the safety is on when it is not.

For instance, a safety may have been worn down to a point where it is no longer functioning.

In addition, an open bolt indicator, such as the yellow safety flag distributed by CMP may be inserted in the barrel ( needed if the firearm design lacks a mechanical hold-open device ).

Since such substances may affect a person's judgment even after consuming relatively small amounts, zero tolerance is advocated by gun safety teachers.

If the collection holds guns of criminal interest, such as pistols or sub machine-guns the police may demand a very high safety level on the keeping of the guns ( such as security windows and vault doors ).

It has been argued that while this strategy was extremely effective in advancing the safety, dignity and equality of Canadian homosexuals, its emphasis of sameness came at the expense of difference and may have undermined opportunities for more meaningful change.

Additionally the pump itself will make many safety checks throughout the day, in some cases up to 4, 000, 000 and may have a second microprocessor dedicated to this.

The adoption of international standards results in the creation of equivalent, national standards that are substantially the same as international standards in technical content, but may have ( i ) editorial differences as to appearance, use of symbols and measurement units, substitution of a point for a comma as the decimal marker, and ( ii ) differences resulting from conflicts in governmental regulations or industry-specific requirements caused by fundamental climatic, geographical, technological, or infrastructural factors, or the stringency of safety requirements that a given standard authority considers appropriate.

Even where occupant safety isn't an issue, excessive jerk may result in an uncomfortable ride on elevators, trams and the like, and engineers expend considerable design effort to minimize it.

This innovative arrangement was an early form of banking, and may have been the first formal system to support the use of cheques ; it improved the safety of pilgrims by making them less attractive targets for thieves, and also contributed to the Templar coffers.

But for the safety of Southeast Asia, and for the sake of the Laotian people -- who would not be well-ruled by either militant minority now engaged in the fighting -- this last big effort to seal that country from the cold war had to be made.

Good taste and versatility, plus safety from spray poisons would be enough to recommend the frequent use of such a fruit, even if its nutritional values were limited.

Our pools also have wide, shallow steps -- for the benefit of the littlest swimmers who can thus be introduced to the water with far greater safety than a ladder affords.

Even if gymnastics are not the ultimate goal, the good tumbler will be a better dancer, a better athlete, and a human being with a greater margin of safety in any activity.

Would a camera club be useful in taking pictures pertinent to plant safety??

Transportation technologies on a remote area like Antarctica need to be able to deal with extremely low temperatures and continuous winds to ensure the travelers ' safety.

It was the only way they could be mounted and survey the overall battlefield with safety from distant musket fire.

Some also claim it to be the oldest subway tunnel in the world, as it was built by the cut and cover method under a city street, specifically for the purposes of improved public safety, attaining grade separation and enhanced railway operations.

While they can be a human safety hazard, it is productive for these ecosystems to burn out every once in a while so that new organisms can begin to grow and thrive.

Silicon is an alternative to lead ; however, when silicon is used in a brass alloy, the scrap must never be mixed with leaded brass scrap because of contamination and safety problems.

There is a third view that sees merit in both arguments above and attempts to bridge them, and so cannot be articulated as starkly as they can ; it sees more than one Christianity and more than one attitude towards paganism at work in the poem, separated from each other by hundreds of years ; it sees the poem as originally the product of a literate Christian author with one foot in the pagan world and one in the Christian, himself a convert perhaps or one whose forbears had been pagan, a poet who was conversant in both oral and literary milieus and was capable of a masterful " repurposing " of poetry from the oral tradition ; this early Christian poet saw virtue manifest in a willingness to sacrifice oneself in a devotion to justice and in an attempt to aid and protect those in need of help and greater safety ; good pagan men had trodden that noble path and so this poet presents pagan culture with equanimity and respect ; yet overlaid upon this early Christian poet's composition are verses from a much later reformist " fire-and-brimstone " Christian poet who vilifies pagan practice as dark and sinful and who adds satanic aspects to its monsters.

These models were known as dwarf safeties, or safety bicycles, for their lower seat height and better weight distribution ( although without pneumatic tires the ride of the smaller-wheeled bicycle would be much rougher than that of the larger-wheeled variety ).

In simpler term, Biotechnology is the research and development in the laboratory that involves bioinformatics for exploration, extraction, exploitation and production from any living organisms and any source of biomass by means of biochemical engineering where high value-added products could be planned ( reproduced by Biosynthesis, for example ), fore-casted, formulated, developed, manufactured and marketed for the purpose of sustainable operations ( for the return from bottomless initial investment on R & D ) and gaining durable patents rights ( for exclusives rights for sales, and prior to this to receive national and international approval from the results on animal experiment and human experiment, especially on the pharmaceutical branch of biotechnology to prevent any undetected side-effects on safety concerns by using the products ), for more about the biotechnology industry, see.

As a matter of safety, the face is typically made of thick lead glass so as to be highly shatter-resistant and to block most X-ray emissions, particularly if the CRT is used in a consumer product.

Similarly, the compiler can be told on a per-module or per-function basis which type safety level is wanted, using optimize declarations.

The club began to groundshare with Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park and this arrangement looked to be for the long-term, as Charlton did not have enough funds to revamp the Valley to meet safety requirements.

In addition, if the defensive team gains possession, but then moves backwards into the endzone and is stopped, a one point safety will be awarded to the offense, although, unlike a real safety, the offense kicks off, opposed to the team charged with the safety.

Customers are likely not as patient to work through malfunctions or gaps in user safety, and there is an expectation that the usability of systems should be somewhat intuitive: “ it helps make the machine an extension of the way I think — not how it wants me to think .”

Subsystems should default to secure settings, and wherever possible should be designed to " fail secure " rather than " fail insecure " ( see fail-safe for the equivalent in safety engineering ).