Article 4 Definitions

For the purposes of this Decision, the following definitions shall apply:

1. (1)

   ‘Incident’ means the detection of a biological, chemical or physical hazard in food, feed or humans which might result in or indicate a possible public health risk with the exposure of more than one person to the same hazard, or a situation in which the number of human cases or detections of a hazard exceed the expected number and where cases are linked or probably linked, to the same food or feed source;

2. (2)

   ‘foodborne outbreak’ as defined in Article 2(2)(d) of Directive 2003/99/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council^f1;

3. (3)

   ‘crisis coordinator’ means a person and his/her alternate from the European institutes and from competent authorities of Member States who acts as one single contact point to ensure effective exchange of information between all partners involved in the coordination of the general plan and efficient decision making and implementation of actions within the competence of his/her organisation.