What is the Incident Search?

In this article, you will learn how to access posts and articles from incidents in Incident Search.

Incident Search provides comprehensive data, including duplicates and news coverage. For official data from governmental bodies and authorities, without duplicates or news and social media content, please follow the link to Food Safety Intelligence.

Incident Search and FSI share similar approaches, however the way of storing data and choosing from the commodities and hazards is different. To see how the smart search works, please watch this video guide. 

When opening Incident Search tab, you are getting interactive charts which provide with detailed ontology:

  • Commodity (Product or product group, Starting at the broader product group level with "Dairy Products and Analogues," we can delve deeper into specific subgroups like "Cheese and Analogues" and "Milk.")
  • Hazard (Potential source of harm, starting at the broader group level with "Bio Contaminants," we can focus on subgroups such as "Mycotoxins," and further narrow down to specific substances like "Biotoxins")
  • Origin of the issue (Market, where the incident was reported)
  • Source (Source identifies the website, where the content was collected from)
  • Source Categories (Type of the source)
  • Market Origin (Market, where the incident happened)
  • Incident Category (Control, Recall, Fraud, Outbreak, Consumer Complaint)

The widget can be customized by clicking  'Customize widgets' to fit specific needs.


As you scroll down, you'll find the incident database that shows all the related posts with a direct link to the original source. This feature allows access to detailed information about each incident, including the original source of the data, for further investigation and verification. Here, you can search through 'Most Recent' and 'Most Relevant' posts with the ability to export data from your query.