Glossary of the food sector

Economic operator (MOCA)

Natural or legal person responsible for ensuring compliance with the provisions of this Regulation within the undertaking under their control.

—Source: Regulation (EC) 1935/2004, Art. 2(2)(d)

Economic operators

The manufacturer, the authorized representative, the importer, and the distributor.

—Source: Regulation (EU) 2019/1009, art. 2, point 15

Edible meat and offal

Products listed in Annex I, Part II, Section I, Chapter 2, Subchapters 0201 to 0208, of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87.

— Source: Regulation (EU) 2017/625, Art. 3(50)

Egg

Eggs — other than broken, incubated, or cooked eggs — of farmed poultry in their shells, suitable for direct human consumption or for the preparation of egg products.

— Source: Regulation (EC) 853/2004, Annex I

Egg product (US term)

Any dried, frozen, or liquid eggs, with or without added ingredients, excepting products which contain eggs only in a relatively small proportion or historically have not been, in the judgment of the Secretary, considered by consumers as products of the egg food industry, and which may be exempted by the Secretary under such conditions as the Secretary may prescribe to assure that the egg ingredients are not adulterated and such products are not represented as egg products. For the purposes of this part, the following products, among others, are exempted as not being egg products: Cooked egg products, imitation egg products, dietary foods, dried no-bake custard mixes, egg nog mixes, acidic dressings, noodles, milk and egg dip, cake mixes, French toast, and sandwiches containing eggs or egg products, provided such products are prepared from inspected egg products or eggs containing no more restricted eggs than are allowed in the official standards for U.S. Consumer Grade B shell eggs. Balut and other similar ethnic delicacies are also exempted from inspection under this part.

— Source: 9 CFR 590.5

Egg products

Processed products resulting from the processing of eggs, or various components or mixtures of eggs, or from the further processing of such processed products.

— Source: Regulation (EC) No 853/2004, Annex I

Energy from renewable sources

Energy from non-fossil renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar, geothermal, wave, tidal, hydroelectric, landfill gas, sewage treatment gas, and biogas.

— Source: Reg. (EU) 2018/848, Art. 3(35)

Engineered nanomaterial

Intentionally produced material containing particles in the free, aggregated, or agglomerated state and in which, for at least 50% of the particles in the number size distribution, one or more external dimensions are in the size class between 1 nm and 100 nm.

— Source: Reg. (EU) 1169/2011, Art. 2(2)(t)

Engineered nanomaterial

Any intentionally produced material characterized by one or more dimensions of the order of 100 nm or smaller, or composed of discrete functional parts, internal or at the surface, many of which have one or more dimensions of the order of 100 nm or smaller, including structures, agglomerates, or aggregates that may have dimensions greater than 100 nm but exhibit properties characteristic of the nanoscale. Properties characteristic of the nanoscale include:

i) properties related to the high specific surface area of ​​the materials considered; and/or

ii) specific physicochemical properties that differ from those of the same material in non-nano form.

— Source: Regulation (EU) 2015/2283, Art. 3(2)(f)

Engineered nanomaterials

Any intentionally produced material characterized by one or more dimensions of the order of 100 nm or smaller, or composed of discrete functional parts, internal or at the surface, many of which have one or more dimensions of the order of 100 nm or smaller, including structures, agglomerates, or aggregates that may have dimensions greater than 100 nm but exhibit properties characteristic of the nanoscale. Properties characteristic of the nanoscale include:

i) properties related to the high specific surface area of ​​the materials considered; and/or

ii) specific physicochemical properties that differ from those of the same material in non-nano form.

— Source: Regulation (EU) 2015/2283, Art. 3(2)(f)

Enterprise (MOCA)

Any public or private entity, whether profit-making or not, that carries out activities related to any stage of the manufacturing, processing, and distribution of materials and objects.

—Source: Reg. (EC) 1935/2004, Art. 2(2)(c)

Environment

Water (including groundwater, surface water, transitional water, coastal water, and marine water), sediments, soil, air, land, wild fauna and flora species and their interrelationships, as well as their relationships with other living organisms.

— Source: Reg. (EU) 1107/2009, Art. 3(13)

Environmental risk assessment

Substances, including microorganisms, that exert general or specific action against harmful organisms or on plants, parts of plants, or plant products.

— Source: Directive 2001/18/EC, Art. 2(8)

Equivalence

Achieving the same objectives and principles by applying standards that ensure the same level of compliance assurance.

— Source: Reg. (EU) 2018/848, Art. 3(64)

Equivalent

Referring to different systems, it means capable of achieving the same objectives.

—Source: Reg. (EC) 852/2004, Art. 2(1)(e)