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Term: Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration (IFSAC) category (IFSAC_category)

The IFSAC food categorization scheme has five distinct levels to which foods can be assigned, depending upon the type of food. First, foods are assigned to one of four food groups (aquatic animals, land animals, plants, and other). Food groups include increasingly specific food categories; dairy, eggs, meat and poultry, and game are in the land animal food group, and the category meat and poultry is further subdivided into more specific categories of meat (beef, pork, other meat) and poultry (chicken, turkey, other poultry). Finally, foods are differentiated by differences in food processing (such as pasteurized fluid dairy products, unpasteurized fluid dairy products, pasteurized solid and semi-solid dairy products, and unpasteurized solid and semi-solid dairy products. An IFSAC food category chart is available from https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/ifsac/projects/food-categorization-scheme.html PMID: 28926300

URI: MIXS:0001179

Applicable Checklists and Extensions

NOTE: does not include Combinations (of checklists and extensions) that use IFSAC_category.

Name Description Checklist/Extension
FoodFarmEnvironment A collection of terms appropriate when collecting samples and performing sequ... Extension
FoodFoodProductionFacility A collection of terms appropriate when collecting samples and performing sequ... Extension
FoodHumanFoods A collection of terms appropriate when collecting samples and performing sequ... Extension
FoodAnimalAndAnimalFeed A collection of terms appropriate when collecting samples and performing sequ... Extension

Properties

  • Range: String
  • Cardinality: 1..*

Examples

Value
Plants:Produce:Vegetables:Herbs:Dried Herbs

Annotations

  • Expected_value: IFSAC term

LinkML Source

name: IFSAC_category
annotations:
  Expected_value:
    tag: Expected_value
    value: IFSAC term
description: 'The IFSAC food categorization scheme has five distinct levels to which
  foods can be assigned, depending upon the type of food. First, foods are assigned
  to one of four food groups (aquatic animals, land animals, plants, and other). Food
  groups include increasingly specific food categories; dairy, eggs, meat and poultry,
  and game are in the land animal food group, and the category meat and poultry is
  further subdivided into more specific categories of meat (beef, pork, other meat)
  and poultry (chicken, turkey, other poultry). Finally, foods are differentiated
  by differences in food processing (such as pasteurized fluid dairy products, unpasteurized
  fluid dairy products, pasteurized solid and semi-solid dairy products, and unpasteurized
  solid and semi-solid dairy products. An IFSAC food category chart is available from
  https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/ifsac/projects/food-categorization-scheme.html PMID:
  28926300'
title: Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration (IFSAC) category
examples:
- value: Plants:Produce:Vegetables:Herbs:Dried Herbs
from_schema: https://w3id.org/mixs
keywords:
- food
slot_uri: MIXS:0001179
alias: IFSAC_category
domain_of:
- FoodAnimalAndAnimalFeed
- FoodFarmEnvironment
- FoodFoodProductionFacility
- FoodHumanFoods
range: string
required: true
multivalued: true