Food Borne Illnesses
Caused by the consumption of a food in which bacteria have produced a poisonous toxin
What is Food intoxication?
The only reliable way to ensure that a food is properly cooked.
Why is using a thermometer important?
Enters the body by several pathways
What is Pathogen contamination?
Regulates the use of potentially harmful pesticides in food production and establishes the tolerance levels for pesticides.
What is EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)
Most foodborne diseases infect the tissues of the digestive tract and cause gastric distress.
This virus causes infectious hepatitis, a liver disease
What is the Hepatitis A virus?
Meat temperature when cooking, Ground beef is 160 Degrees, Chicken is 165 Degrees and Casseroles are 165 Degrees
What are the correct degrees you should cook your meats in?
Infection caused by the presence of a virus in the body.
Regulates animal drugs, including food additives, herbicides, and environmental contaminants.
What is the FDA (The Food and Drug Administration)?
The process of exposing food and food packaging to ionizing radiation.
What is Food Irradiation?
You can get contaminated by an Infected Animal, Infected Food Handler and/ or using infected or contaminated equipment.
What are causes of Food Borne Illnesses?
Make sure to handle food in a careful, sanitary manner, and make sure to properly store food and watch your cooking temperature.
What are examples of practicing Food Safety in the kitchen?
1 in 6 Americans get this, 128,000 people are hospitalized and there are 3,000 deaths
What is Food Poisoning?
Sets tolerance levels for chemical residues in edible foods. and by doing this it determines the highest dose at which a residue causes no ill effects in laboratory animals
What is the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)?
An organism that is microscopic which can be a bacterium, virus, or fungus
What are microorganisms?
Sickens and kills more of us than any other food bourne pathogen, and it's carried in 1 out of 4 pieces of chicken.
What is Salmonella?
Making sure you are washing thoroughly with soap and warm water before you start handling food
What is proper hand washing?
These are a great concern to consumers and sometimes this substance can remain in a product at the time of sale.
What are Pesticide Residues?
These folks oversees the American farming industry.
What is the USDA (The United States Department of Agriculture)?
The consumption of a food in which bacteria have produced a poisonous toxin.
What is Food Intoxication?
This is the 3rd leading cause of death amongst food borne illnesses, which can cause miscarriages, stillborn babies and preterm birth
What is Listeria?
Maintain refrigerated food at 40°F
Occurs when people eat toxic substances that may be intentionally or accidentally added to foods during growing, harvesting, processing, transporting, storing, or preparing foods.
What is chemical poisoning?
Responsible for protecting the consumer against unsafe, unsanitary and improperly labeled products
What role does the State and Federal Government play in Food Safety?
Environmental, naturally occurring in the food, formed dues to mishandling of food during growing or storage, substances formed as the result of processing, and substances passed from animals to humans
What are natural food toxins?