NYC Food Protection Course Exam |
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What is the Bureau of Food safety and Community Sanitation
- Correct Answer - an office within the NYC Dept of Health and
Mental Hygiene that conduct inspections of food establishments.
Who performs inspections conducted by the Bureau of Food
Safety and Community Sanitation
- Correct Answer - Public Health Sanitarians
What are the three categories of food-borne illnesses - Correct
Answer - infection, intoxication, toxin-mediated infection
When can the first symptoms of Food-borne infection be
experienced - Correct Answer - 6 to 48 hours after ingestion.
,What is intoxication - Correct Answer - caused by the waste
products (toxins) of certain microorganisms.
When are first symptoms experienced from intoxication? - Correct
Answer - immediately or within 6 hours of ingestion. Toxins cannot
be destroyed by heat, once they are formed, no amount of
cooking will deactivate them.
What is food- borne toxin -mediated illness - Correct Answer -
microorg is ingested and then produces toxin in intestines
Salmonellosis and how to control it - Correct Answer - infection,
cook meat, refrigerate meet (41F), eggs need to be cooked to
145F unless it is pasteurized. Foods ready to heat should be
handled with gloves.
Campylobacteriosis - Correct Answer - found in intestines of
sheep, pigs, cattle, poultry. The onset is 2-10 days after ingestion.
Control by using pasteurized milk, potable water,
, Listeriosis - Correct Answer - anything can be infected, including
plants in contaminated soil or animals infected. This one can hurt
or kill fetuses. 1 day to 3 weeks onset.
Shigellosis - Correct Answer - dysentery. From unwashed toilet
hands or flies. 1- 7 days. A control can also be to rapidly cool
foods at or below 41F
Staphylococcal Food Intoxication - Correct Answer - intoxication
from bad hygiene. 1-6 hours.
Botulism - Correct Answer - intoxication-clostridium botulinum
(anaerobic), home canned products, smoked or vacuum packed
foods, garlic in oil. Store smoked fish at 38F or less
Scombroid poisoning - Correct Answer - intoxication from
histamine poisoning. Histamine from decomposing fish. Onset is
minutes to two hours.
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