Food Safety
U R What U Grow
Our Decrepit Food Factories
The Vegetable-Industrial Complex
Swine CAFOs & Novel H1N1 Flu
100
Besides Physical and Chemical, what is the third class of hazard that cause food-borne illness?
What is Biological
100
Researcher Adam Drewnowski found these items at the center of the grocery store.
What is imperishable packaged good/processed foods? (What the the factors that allow fresh foods to be stored in corners and walls, while more perishable good are presented at the center? Ignore the practical, economic reasons.)
100
This is the epidemic seen in bees causing them to leave their hives mysteriously.
What is colony collapse disorder or CCD
100
A local food economy where local growers sell agricultural products.
What is a farmer's market?
100
This term refers to the type of animal farming where thousands of animals are raised in a crowded indoor facility.
What is Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO)
200
Poisonings caused by eating food that contains a toxic chemical is called what?
What is an Intoxicant
200
This is the amount of money needed to buy 1200 calories of cookies, 875 calories of soda, but only 250 calories of carrots?
What is one dollar? (How has nutrient-lacking, processed food costs so much cheaper per calorie given the large amount of chemical preservatives used?)
200
This organization approved the importation of bees from Australia when the demand for honeybees outstripped supply.
What is the U.S.D.A.
200
This strain of bacteria, which thrives in the rumen of grain-fed cows but not grass-fed cows, is responsible for foodborne outbreaks in spinach and beef.
What is E. Coli O157:H7?
200
This animal is known as the H1N1 reservoir because it is known to be able to survive the infection.
What are pigs?
300
Complete the following rule for proper food holding temperature. "Keep it hot, keep it cool, or ___ ____ ___"
What is "Don't keep it" Side note: Hot Food above 135 F Cool Food below 41 F
300
These are the primary forms of carbohydrates that make up the complex 39 ingredient recipe in making a Twinkie.
What are corn, soybeans, and wheat? (The use of these carbs are supported by the Farm Bill. How might you change the Farm Bill to switch to more nutrient-dense crops? Consider the amount of mono-cropping farms affected by your decision.)
300
This is the disease that prevalent at a 60% rate in pig populations that are fed antibiotics, but only 5% in pig population not fed antibiotics.
What is MRSA? (What are your stance to antibiotic use in meat products?)
300
In his farewell news conference, Tommy Thompson identified this as being critically important to the national security and the public health.
What is the health of local food economies? (Is there anything we, as public health leaders, can do to highlight the importance of a safe food system?)
300
These two characteristics of the H1N1 virus make it especially dangerous to humans.
What are human-to-human transmission and lack of immunity. How has the threat of the H1N1 virus altered your daily lives (if at all)?
400
What is the term for large-scale farm facilities that are potential sources for pollutants such as nitrates, phosphates, and antibiotics?
What is Factory Farming
400
This has lead to a large revival of local food systems, and nearly doubled the number of farmer's markets in the last few years?
What is organic food? (Some reports state that about 40% of organic foods are imported, primarily from China and India. Each country have their own definitions of "organic", and even in the U.S., 70% of less of the ingredients can organic for the product to be labeled as organic. How would you as a consumer verify your organic foods are "organic" to your standards?
400
The Union of Concerned Scientists estimates that at least 70 percent of America's use of this commodity are fed to animals living on factory farms. Hint: it means "against life."
What are antibiotics? (In Europe, it was found that 60 percent of pig farms that routinely used antibiotics had MRSA-positive pigs compared with 5 percent of farms that did not feed pigs antibiotics. What is the other evil that we are choosing the lesser of?)
400
This bacterium is found in cattle feces and is found to contaminate our food and is responsible for many of the food-borne illnesses seen today
What is E. Coli?
400
The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), located in Paris, does not require the testing for swine influenzas because they are not considered an emerging disease. These are two reasons why pork producers do not want to test for novel H1N1.
What are global trade sanctions and economic loss. Should America require its pork producers to test for novel H1N1 despite the large economic and livestock results that could be detrimental to the industry?
500
What is the seventh step of the HACCP food safety system that is used to identify, evaluate, and control food safety hazards?
What is Establish Effective Record Keeping
500
With a record setting 32.8 percent adult obesity rate, this country is known to be the fattest country of the world in 2013.
What is Mexico? (The rise of American fast foods, inactive lifestyles, and higher income levels have been said to contribute to this phenomenon. What programs can you propose to remedy this issue?)
500
One of the United States federal executive departments. They are the meat and the pharmaceutical industries regulatory “watchdogs.”
What is the FDA or Food and Drug Administration?
500
The use of chemical fertilizers rather than animal waste on farms; irradiation of food; sterilization of manure.
What are examples of technological fixes?
500
This dangerous foodborne disease is much rarer in CAFO-raised pigs than in those raised in the outdoors.
What is Trichinella spirals (the source of the human disease trichinosis). How do we weight the risks of CAFO-raising versus outdoor raising? Which method do you believe is "better"?
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