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Preventing contamination

Types of contamination

Food contaminants fall into three main classes and care must be taken to avoid each of these.

These classes are: Physical, chemical and biological.

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Nominal Value

A level of measurement where no ordering of cases is implied. ie. a footballer wearing a number 8 shirt is certainly not twice the value of the player wearing number 4

Frequency

The number of times an event occurs over a given period of time.

Average (or Mean)

The average (or mean) of a set of numbers is the total of all the values divided by the number of values in the list