Food Safety Hazards
True or False: The CDC estimates that each year roughly 1 in 6 Americans gets sick due to foodborne illnesses.
What is True. That's about 48 million people each year.
Occurs when the body's immune system reacts to certain proteins in food.
What are Food Allergies?
Minimum time to wash hands before entering manufacturing floor.
What is 20 seconds?
List three examples of foreign material that have the potential to contaminate.
What is plastic, metal, glass?
The effort to protect food from acts of intentional adulteration or tampering.
What is Food Defense?
Three types of food safety hazards.
What are biological, chemical, and physical hazards?
Name 3 examples of symptoms of an allergic reaction.
What is hives, flushed skin and rash, difficulty breathing, loss of consciousness.
Written procedures or programs used to maintain equipment and the facility environment in a sanitary condition for food processing.
What are SSOPs?
This type of non-metal material has the potential to splinter off and should not be present in open product and processing areas.
What is wood?
Type of durable metal corrosion-resistant to most food applications and cleaning solutions.
What is stainless steel?
Certain groups of people such as ___ are more susceptible to foodborne illnesses.
What are children, older adults/elderly, pregnant women, people with weakened immune systems?
Process whereby an allergen is accidentally transferred from one food to another.
What is Allergen cross-contact?
Pathogen that can be found in dry product areas.
What is Salmonella?
Any action to be taken when the results of monitoring at the CCP indicate a loss of control.
What is corrective action?
Intentional addition or modification of a food product with inferior, cheaper, or non-authentic substances, often to increase volume or weight, or to improve appearance, which can compromise the product’s quality, safety, and nutritional value.
What is Economically Motivated Food Adulteration?
Process control system that identifies where hazards might occur in the food production process.
What is HACCP?
Packaging requirement to protect those with food allergies and other food hypersensitivities.
What is labeling?
Describe what EMP is.
Environmental Monitoring Program - A process used in food processing facilities that assesses how effectively the plant is being cleaned typically by swabbing various surfaces for pathogens and performing a lab analysis of these samples.
Type of material pens, bandages to cover employee cuts and grazes, ear plugs used in open product areas should be to easily detect and avoid foreign material in products.
What is metal detectable?
Process that systematically evaluates factors like ingredient sourcing, supply chain complexity, and supplier verification to identify weak points that are susceptible to food fraud to generate an overall Food Fraud Risk score.
What is a Vulnerability Assessment?
Any action and activity that can be used to prevent or eliminate a food safety hazard or reduce it to an acceptable level.
What is control measure?
List the 9 Major Food Allergens in the US.
What is Milk, Eggs, Fish, Shellfish, Tree Nuts, Peanuts, Wheat, Soybeans, Sesame?
Dry pick up, pre-rinse, cleaning agent or detergent application, post-rinse, preliminary inspection, pre-op inspection, sanitizer application.
What are the 7 Steps to Effective Sanitation?
Describe what a glass and brittle plastic program entails and it's importance.
What is program to minimize the potential for cross-contamination of food, ingredients, and packaging with glass or brittle plastic to ensure that foods and ingredients are safe and will not result in an injury or illness to end users?
Bolts, studs, mounting plates, brackets, end caps, and other such items must have this kind of weld to avoid niche points.
What is continuous welding?