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Hazard Identification

Hazard identification is defined in the Codex Alimentarius Commission Procedural Manual, Fourteenth Edition (2004) as "The identification of biological, chemical, and physical agents capable of causing adverse health effects and which may be present in a particular food or group of foods."

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