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Certified Professional - Food Safety Complete Review (NEHA 3rd Edition)
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Certified Professional - Food SafetyComplete Review (NEHA 3rd Edition)
Define: Simply a *disease-producing* organism. - Answers -Pathogen.
Define: An organism that *requires oxygen* to reproduce. - Answers -Aerobe. Aerobic
Organism.
Define: An organism that requires the *absence of oxygen* to reproduce. - Answers -
Anaerobe. Anaerobic Organism.
Define: An organism that can multiply *with or without the presence of oxygen.* -
Answers -Facultative Anaerobe.
Biological Contaminants. These organisms can affect human health through what *3
health issues*? - Answers -Infection, intoxication, and even death.
What agency enforces food safety in restaurants? - Answers -State or Local Health
Department.
How does the *FDA Food Code* affect individual states and jurisdictions? - Answers -
The "Code" provides a model for new laws and rules in state, local, and tribal
jurisdictions.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires that all potentially
harmful substances have a document on file that provides information for emergency
treatment should an employee be injured with the product. This document is called? -
Answers -Safety Data Sheet. SDS.
Define: A raw, cooked, or processed edible substance, ice, beverage, or ingredient
used or intended for use or for sale in whole or in part for human consumption, or
chewing gum. - Answers -The *Food Code* definition of food.
Define: An operation that stores, prepares, packages, serves, vends, or otherwise
provides food for human consumption. - Answers -The *Food Code* definition of a
*Food Establishment.*
,Is an establishment that offers *only* prepackaged foods that are not Time/
Temperature Control for Safety foods considered a food establishment by the *Food
Code*? - Answers -This is not considered a food establishment.
What is defined as: an illness that is carried or transmitted to people by food? - Answers
-Foodborne Illness (*FBI*).
As stated in the *Food Code*, what needs the occurrence of *two or more cases* of
similar illness resulting from ingestion of a common food? - Answers -Foodborne
Disease Outbreak.
What are the *conditions* that define a foodborne outbreak? - Answers -1. *Two* or
more people.
2. Same food.
3. Same illness/ symptoms.
What is defined as: A biological, chemical, or physical property that may cause an
unacceptable consumer risk. - Answers -Hazard.
What is the *acronym* used to remember that items most commonly associated with the
*spread and prevention* of foodborne illness? - Answers -FUELSS.
What does the *FUELSS* acronym stand for? - Answers -Exposed *F*ood.
Clean *U*tensils.
Clean *E*quipment.
Clean *L*inens.
Unwrapped *S*ingle *S*ervice or Single Use items (Plastic forks, straws, etc).
Define: The initial growth phase of a culture, during which, cell number remains
relatively constant prior to rapid growth. - Answers -Lag Phase.
Define: The steepest slope of the growth curve of a culture - the phase of vigorous
growth during which cell number doubles every 20-30 min. - Answers -Log (Logarithmic)
or Exponential Phase.
Define: The plateau of the growth curve after log growth in a culture, during which cell
number remains constant. New cells are produced at the same rate as older cells die. -
Answers -Stationary Phase.
What is defined as the ability to produce toxins, is an underlying mechanism by which
many bacterial pathogens produce disease? - Answers -Toxigenesis.
What is generated by the bacteria and are actively secreted during exponential growth.
This remain part of the bacterial outer membrane, and are not released until the
bacterium is killed by the immune system. - Answers -Exotoxins.
, What *exotoxin* produces a *neurotoxin* of unusual potency that affects *ONLY*
neurological tissue? - Answers -Clostridium botulinum.
What occurs when bacteria produce and release exotoxin *into* the food and cause
illness? - Answers -Intoxication.
Illnesses caused by *intoxication* normally have what kind of onset time? - Answers -
Short.
What are the common kinds of bacteria that produce toxins (exotoxin) that cause illness
by releasing toxins in the gut when large number of vegetative cells are eaten? -
Answers -Staphylococcus aureus.
Clostridium botulinum.
Clostridium perfringens.
When an infection occurs when the bacteria release toxins in the intestine of the
affected person and cause illness. - Answers -Endotoxin.
Illness caused by infection of endotoxins normally have what kind of onset time? -
Answers -Long. It may take up to one or two days before the infection makes the person
feel ill.
What are common endotoxin infections? - Answers -Salmonella.
Campylobacter.
Hermorrhagic E. coli.
Listeria.
This substance enters the stomach and intestines when on eats tainted food or water,
causing symptoms such as cramps, nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea. - Answers -
Enterotoxin.
What infection occurs when a person eats food containing harmful bacteria that die and
release toxins while in the intestines of the affected person? - Answers -Toxin-mediated
infection.
Norovirus, Hepatitis A, and Rotavirus are directly related to contamination from human
feces. What causes these illnesses? - Answers -These are viruses caused by humans.
What is the most common - and dangerous - type of bacterial contamination that can be
controlled relatively easy? - Answers -Cross-contamination.
What is one of the most important actions food handlers can take to prevent the spread
of foodborne illnesses? - Answers -Hand Washing.
It is the responsibility of the person in charge (PIC) to make certain that food employees
are trained on the causes of foodborne illness and the relationship between the food
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