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    "registry_id": "vr.tr.landj-ger",
    "name": "Landjäger",
    "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise Landjäger as a prepared sausage type, assess a particular product's condition and determine appropriate storage, handling and consumption from verified product information.",
    "definition": "Landjäger is a firm, typically flattened or rectangular dry sausage made from seasoned meat, commonly beef and pork, that is cured, smoked and dried and usually eaten without further cooking.",
    "scope_statement": "This model owns Landjäger product identity, recipe variation, characteristic form, preservation state and lot-specific suitability for use; it treats Landjäger as a composite food rather than a pure chemical substance.",
    "in_scope": [
      "Evidence identifying a sausage product as Landjäger",
      "Meat, fat, seasoning, casing and additive composition",
      "Characteristic shape, portion format and texture",
      "Documented curing, smoking, drying and any fermentation",
      "Packaging, storage requirements and condition of a particular lot",
      "Label-supported preparation and consumption"
    ],
    "out_of_scope": [
      "General livestock production and slaughter operations",
      "Chemical identity models for individual ingredients or additives",
      "Design and operation of sausage manufacturing equipment",
      "Other sausage types except where needed to establish identity boundaries",
      "Personal dietary or medical advice",
      "Complete manufacturing recipes and process validation protocols"
    ],
    "distinguishing_features": [
      "A product label or authoritative regional description identifies it as Landjäger; appearance alone provides only provisional identification.",
      "Its commonly flattened, roughly rectangular profile supports identification, while departures require checking the applicable product tradition.",
      "Its preserved, firm sausage character distinguishes it from fresh sausage requiring cooking; the actual preparation requirement must still be verified.",
      "Its usual small link format, often presented in pairs, helps distinguish it from larger slicing sausages but is not sufficient evidence by itself.",
      "Recipe and preservation evidence must distinguish it from visually similar smoked or dried snack sausages without assuming a universal meat mixture."
    ],
    "characteristics": [
      {
        "name": "Product identity evidence",
        "kind": "relation",
        "unit_or_values": "Links to product label, producer specification or regional reference",
        "why_it_matters": "Separates documented Landjäger identity from resemblance or an informal seller description."
      },
      {
        "name": "Recipe tradition",
        "kind": "category",
        "unit_or_values": "Named regional or producer variant; unspecified",
        "why_it_matters": "Makes recipe and presentation differences explicit without treating one variant as universal."
      },
      {
        "name": "Meat and fat composition",
        "kind": "category",
        "unit_or_values": "Declared species, ingredients and proportions where available",
        "why_it_matters": "Supports variant recognition and ingredient-based selection."
      },
      {
        "name": "Casing",
        "kind": "category",
        "unit_or_values": "Declared material and edible, remove before eating or unknown status",
        "why_it_matters": "Determines whether the casing requires removal."
      },
      {
        "name": "Link geometry",
        "kind": "measurement",
        "unit_or_values": "Length, width and thickness in mm; mass in g",
        "why_it_matters": "Records the characteristic flattened portion format and differences between products."
      },
      {
        "name": "Preservation treatments",
        "kind": "category",
        "unit_or_values": "Documented curing, smoking, drying, fermentation and heat treatment; unknown where unverified",
        "why_it_matters": "Prevents the product name or smoky appearance from being mistaken for evidence of a validated process."
      },
      {
        "name": "Water activity",
        "kind": "measurement",
        "unit_or_values": "aw, dimensionless, with sampling stage and method",
        "why_it_matters": "Provides evidence relevant to drying state and preservation when interpreted within a validated product specification."
      },
      {
        "name": "Acidity",
        "kind": "measurement",
        "unit_or_values": "pH with sampling stage and method",
        "why_it_matters": "Helps characterise products whose preservation includes acidification without assuming all Landjäger follows the same process."
      },
      {
        "name": "Texture condition",
        "kind": "state",
        "unit_or_values": "Within producer specification; unusually soft; excessively hard; unknown",
        "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes intended firmness from changes requiring investigation."
      },
      {
        "name": "Storage and consumption status",
        "kind": "state",
        "unit_or_values": "Labelled storage conditions, opening state, applicable date and ready-to-eat or preparation-required status",
        "why_it_matters": "Connects the particular product and package state to permitted handling."
      }
    ],
    "affordances": [
      "Compare a candidate sausage with documented Landjäger identity criteria.",
      "Distinguish regional or producer variants using recipe, form and preservation evidence.",
      "Check declared ingredients and casing against stated user requirements.",
      "Apply product-specific storage and post-opening instructions.",
      "Flag package damage, storage deviations or unexplained surface changes for assessment.",
      "Determine whether direct consumption or a preparation step is supported by the label."
    ],
    "agent_conduct": {
      "may": [
        "Describe Landjaeger as a flattened, cured and smoked dry sausage from southern Germany, Switzerland and Austria.",
        "Report meat species, allergens and storage instructions from the label."
      ],
      "must_not": [
        "Sell Landjaeger made from meat of unknown origin or inspection status.",
        "Present a pork-containing sausage as suitable for people who avoid pork.",
        "Sell cured sausages that were not properly dried or that show spoilage.",
        "Describe it as low in salt or additives when it is not."
      ],
      "requires_human": [
        "Approving a homemade cured product for sale to the public."
      ]
    },
    "ethics": {
      "considerations": [
        "Mislabelled meat breaches religious diets and consumer trust.",
        "Cured meats carry health risks that buyers should know."
      ],
      "affected_parties": [
        "Consumers who avoid pork",
        "Butchers and producers",
        "People limiting salt"
      ]
    },
    "owners": {
      "steward": "The producer or seller; food safety authorities set the rules for sale.",
      "master_systems": []
    },
    "visual_identification": [
      "Pairs of thin, flattened, rectangular dark-red sausages, often tied together.",
      "A dry, firm, wrinkled surface from smoking and drying."
    ],
    "failure_modes_and_hazards": [
      "Foodborne illness from improperly cured meat.",
      "High salt content.",
      "Meat species mislabelling."
    ],
    "what_it_is_for": [
      "This dry sausage is encountered in food shops, packed meals and snacks, particularly in parts of Central Europe.",
      "It is commonly eaten without further cooking, while storage requirements depend on the particular product and its packaging."
    ],
    "standards_and_regulation": [
      "Regulation (EC) No 852/2004, issued by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union, establishes food hygiene requirements applicable to its commercial production and handling in the European Union.",
      "Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011, issued by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union, governs food information supplied to consumers for products marketed in the European Union."
    ]
  },
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    {
      "id": "wikidata",
      "title": "Wikidata item Q690378: Landjäger",
      "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q690378",
      "url_status": "live",
      "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item",
      "checked_by": "wikidata-api"
    },
    {
      "id": "wikipedia-en",
      "title": "Wikipedia: Landjäger",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landj%C3%A4ger",
      "url_status": "live",
      "what_it_supports": "general description of the item",
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    }
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  "structure": {
    "bundles": [
      {
        "id": "landjaeger-identity",
        "name": "Landjäger identity and boundaries",
        "description": "Establishes what warrants the Landjäger name and which variations remain within the registered thing.",
        "rationale": "A flattened smoked sausage can resemble Landjäger without sufficient evidence to identify it as such.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "name-and-tradition",
            "name": "Name and tradition",
            "description": "Connects product naming to a producer or regional account.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "documented-designation",
                "name": "Documented designation",
                "description": "Record the evidence supporting the Landjäger designation and any narrower regional description.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Which label, producer specification or regional reference identifies this product as Landjäger?",
                    "kind": "provenance",
                    "id": "documented-designation-q01"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which characteristics does that reference require, and which does it describe as customary?",
                    "kind": "definition",
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                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "neighbouring-sausages",
            "name": "Neighbouring sausage types",
            "description": "Uses form and preservation character to distinguish Landjäger from similar products.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "identity-tests",
                "name": "Identity tests",
                "description": "Assess flattened profile, link format and preserved texture together with naming evidence.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Does the product have the flattened profile and portion format described for its claimed Landjäger variant?",
                    "kind": "measurement",
                    "id": "identity-tests-q01"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "What evidence distinguishes it from another smoked snack sausage or a fresh sausage?",
                    "kind": "boundary",
                    "id": "identity-tests-q02"
                  }
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              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "recipe-and-link-construction",
        "name": "Recipe and link construction",
        "description": "Captures the ingredients and physical construction of a Landjäger variant.",
        "rationale": "Neither a universal meat mixture nor a single casing specification should be inferred from the product name.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "meat-fat-and-seasoning",
            "name": "Meat, fat and seasoning",
            "description": "Records declared composition without filling gaps from a generic recipe.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "declared-recipe",
                "name": "Declared recipe",
                "description": "Represent species, fat sources, seasonings, additives and declared allergens at the available level of detail.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Which meat species, fat sources, seasonings and curing ingredients are declared for this Landjäger?",
                    "kind": "provenance",
                    "id": "declared-recipe-q01"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which ingredients or proportions distinguish this variant from other documented Landjäger recipes?",
                    "kind": "boundary",
                    "id": "declared-recipe-q02"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "casing-and-profile",
            "name": "Casing and profile",
            "description": "Describes the casing, flattened cross-section and individual or paired link presentation.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "constructed-portion",
                "name": "Constructed portion",
                "description": "Record link dimensions, mass, casing material and evidence explaining how the characteristic profile is formed.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "What are the link dimensions, mass and presentation, including whether links are supplied as a pair?",
                    "kind": "measurement",
                    "id": "constructed-portion-q01"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "What casing is used, and do the product instructions say to eat or remove it?",
                    "kind": "action",
                    "id": "constructed-portion-q02"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "What documented forming step produces this variant's flattened profile?",
                    "kind": "provenance",
                    "id": "constructed-portion-q03"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "preservation-and-maturation",
        "name": "Preservation and maturation",
        "description": "Connects the finished Landjäger's condition to documented processing and release criteria.",
        "rationale": "Dryness, smoke character and firmness do not independently establish storage stability or readiness to eat.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "preservation-route",
            "name": "Preservation route",
            "description": "Distinguishes the treatments actually used for the product.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "verified-treatment-sequence",
                "name": "Verified treatment sequence",
                "description": "Record curing, smoking, drying and any fermentation or heat treatment only where supported.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Which preservation treatments and sequence are documented for this Landjäger?",
                    "kind": "provenance",
                    "id": "verified-treatment-sequence-q01"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Is fermentation or heat treatment documented, absent by specification or still unknown?",
                    "kind": "definition",
                    "id": "verified-treatment-sequence-q02"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "finished-product-state",
            "name": "Finished product state",
            "description": "Records measurable endpoints and the intended eating texture.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "release-and-texture-evidence",
                "name": "Release and texture evidence",
                "description": "Associate available water activity, pH and texture observations with the producer's finished-product criteria.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "What measured water activity and pH values are available, and at what production stage were they obtained?",
                    "kind": "measurement",
                    "id": "release-and-texture-evidence-q01"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "What product-specific evidence supports release for the labelled storage conditions and consumption method?",
                    "kind": "provenance",
                    "id": "release-and-texture-evidence-q02"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "What degree of firmness is intended, and how is unacceptable softening or hardening identified?",
                    "kind": "boundary",
                    "id": "release-and-texture-evidence-q03"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
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      {
        "id": "packaged-life-and-use",
        "name": "Packaged life and use",
        "description": "Determines handling for a particular Landjäger lot before and after opening.",
        "rationale": "The familiar role of Landjäger as a portable food must not substitute for the actual product's storage instructions.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "package-and-storage",
            "name": "Package and storage",
            "description": "Links packaging and opening state to labelled storage limits.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "lot-specific-storage",
                "name": "Lot-specific storage",
                "description": "Record lot identity, packaging format, date wording and storage instructions applicable to the current package state.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "What packaging format, lot identifier and date wording accompany this Landjäger?",
                    "kind": "provenance",
                    "id": "lot-specific-storage-q01"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "What temperature and time limits apply before opening, after opening and during transport?",
                    "kind": "action",
                    "id": "lot-specific-storage-q02"
                  }
                ]
              }
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          {
            "id": "condition-and-consumption",
            "name": "Condition and consumption",
            "description": "Checks whether the observed sausage and package remain consistent with supported use.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "use-decision",
                "name": "Use decision",
                "description": "Combine preparation instructions, storage history and condition observations without using appearance as proof of safety.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Does the label identify this product as ready to eat or specify a preparation step?",
                    "kind": "action",
                    "id": "use-decision-q01"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Are surface deposits, casing changes or texture changes documented as expected for this variant or unresolved deviations?",
                    "kind": "boundary",
                    "id": "use-decision-q02"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Do package damage or departures from labelled storage instructions require withholding the product from consumption pending assessment?",
                    "kind": "action",
                    "id": "use-decision-q03"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment",
        "name": "Evidence and external alignment",
        "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.",
        "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.",
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            "id": "reported-evidence",
            "name": "Reported evidence",
            "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.",
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                "id": "evidence-confidence-notes",
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                "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.",
                "evidence": [
                  "The intended sense is the food: a composite meat product, not a chemically defined substance with a single CAS identifier.",
                  "Exact ingredients and whether fermentation is a specified processing stage should be checked against the particular regional or producer specification.",
                  "No sources were consulted; numerical composition, drying parameters, shelf life and applicable legal requirements remain unverified."
                ],
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01",
                    "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Landjäger this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
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                "id": "evidence-real-world-use",
                "name": "Real-world use",
                "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.",
                "evidence": [
                  "Eaten as a ready-to-eat snack.",
                  "Carried as provisions for hiking and other outdoor activities.",
                  "Served with bread as part of a cold meal."
                ],
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01",
                    "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Landjäger this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              },
              {
                "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards",
                "name": "Failure modes and hazards",
                "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.",
                "evidence": [
                  "Inadequate control of curing, fermentation or drying can permit foodborne pathogens to survive or grow.",
                  "Contamination can occur after processing.",
                  "Exposure to moisture or unsuitable storage conditions can cause spoilage.",
                  "Shelf stability varies by formulation, processing and packaging; the name alone does not establish storage requirements."
                ],
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01",
                    "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Landjäger this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              },
              {
                "id": "evidence-regional-variation",
                "name": "Regional variation",
                "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.",
                "evidence": [
                  "Associated especially with southern Germany, Switzerland and Austria.",
                  "Meat proportions, seasoning, smoking intensity and final dryness vary by region and producer."
                ],
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01",
                    "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Landjäger this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              },
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                "id": "evidence-neighbours",
                "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart",
                "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.",
                "evidence": [
                  {
                    "name": "Salami",
                    "difference": "Both belong to the dry-sausage family, but Landjäger is conventionally a small, flattened, smoked sausage; salami covers a broader range of shapes, sizes and processing traditions."
                  },
                  {
                    "name": "Jerky",
                    "difference": "Jerky generally consists of dried pieces or strips of meat, whereas Landjäger is a sausage made from comminuted meat in a casing."
                  },
                  {
                    "name": "Bratwurst",
                    "difference": "Bratwurst is generally intended for cooking, whereas Landjäger is cured and dried for consumption without further cooking."
                  }
                ],
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01",
                    "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Landjäger this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
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    "Which authoritative regional descriptions establish the shared identity of Landjäger, and where do their requirements differ?",
    "How consistently are flattened profile, paired links and particular meat mixtures required rather than customary?",
    "Which documented Landjäger variants use fermentation, and which preservation endpoints support their labelled storage conditions?",
    "Are there jurisdiction-specific naming or composition requirements that should qualify product identification?",
    "Which surface and texture changes are expected for particular variants, and what producer evidence distinguishes them from unacceptable deterioration?"
  ],
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    "layers": 9,
    "findings": 13,
    "questions": 24
  }
}
