FSQ Culture
Incident Investigations
Microbiology & EMP
Customer Requirements
Sanitary Design
Allergen
Sanitation and Inspections
FDA Reg and HACCP
100

This logo serves as a visual reminder of our responsibility to keep families safe.

What is the Quality & Food Safety Every Day Logo?

100

This log in MMS verifies if foreign material was or wasn’t present during the check. 

What is the Foreign material monitoring log? 

100

Organisms needs these three things to survive. 

Water, Food, and Shelter. 

100

These type of customers are typically high volume accounts. 

What is a National Accounts? 

100

This design approach makes sure equipment and floors in a potato plant can be cleaned easily to keep food safe.

What is Sanitary Design

100

Cross-contact occurs when allergens are unintentionally transferred from one food to another; separation and this practice help to prevent it from happening.

What is cleaning (or sanitation)? 

100

How is chemical concentration measured? 

PPM (parts per million) or ounces per gallon 

100

This FDA requirement ensures employees maintain cleanliness and proper hygiene to prevent food contamination.

What is cGMP (GMP, current Good Manufacturing Practices, Good Manufacturing Practices)?

200

At Simplot, a program exists that gives employees the authority to stop work for safety and food safety. Tell me the name of this program.

Stop Work Authority. 

200

Totes could be a potential source of a this type of incident. 

What is a Food Safety Incident? 

200

For Environmental monitoring at Simplot, this organism is the main pathogen of concern. 

What is Listeria. 

200

This contract is legally binding between Simplot and Customers for their product.

What is a customer specification?

200

Niches, hollow points, uncleanable surfaces, incompatible materials, liquid collection points, and equipment that are inaccessible for inspection/maintenance/cleaning are all examples of this. 

Poor Sanitary Design. 

200

Although not all countries recognize the same number or type of food as an allergen, this number represents the count of common food items that are recognized as allergens in the United States.

What is Nine Allergens?

200

These roles are responsible for conducting thorough pre-operational inspections. 

Who is the Area supervisor, QA, or Operator? 

200

This FDA enforcement action requires a food company to remove unsafe products from the market, either voluntarily or by mandate.

What is a recall?

300

Simplot has identified five key principles for moving food safety beyond a set of rules and integrating it into our core operations and employee mindset. These include Purpose, Process, Proactivity, Participation and...

What is People?

300

True or False: 

A concentrated chemical line burst over product and was sent to totes. These totes be dispositioned as animal feed. 

True. You can not feed food waste that contains chemicals or pathogens to animals. 

300

These zones are swabbed for pathogens routinely in NRTE in facilities. 

Zone 2, 3, 4. 

300

This is classified as anything that isn’t intended to be in the finished product.

What is Foreign Material? 

300

This term is for a food safety zone that is designated as a Zone 1. 

What is a food contact surface (FCS)?

300

Food labels must list allergens either in the ingredient list or in a separate statement following this key word.

What is “Contains”

300

This primary tool should be used for all pre-op inspections.

What is a flashlight? 

300

This term is used to describe a food safety hazard which has occurred or has the potential to occur in the food, the supply chain, or in the manufacturing facility and must be assessed in the food safety plan.

What is a reasonably foreseeable hazard?

400

A quote from this man reads “Imagine a world without hunger and we didn’t just talk about it; we actually went out and did something about it.”

Who is Scott Simplot?

400

MMS MD records, Xray records, packaging workmanship, grading notes, and cameras are all ways you can verify if this detector was working correctly. 

What is the metal detector?

400

 Name one of the 5 tests that all finish product is tested for.

Aerobic Plate Count, Coliform, E.coli, Staph aureus, Yeast/Mold

400

National Accounts customer only buy their own branded products from Simplot. 

True or False 

False. 

400

Forklifts, vehicles, feet, pallets, contractors are all considered to be this type of contamination. 

What is vector contamination? 

400

This term describes when food does not include an allergen statement on the package but may accidentally include an allergen due to shared equipment or facilities.

What is cross-contact?

400

Time, Temperature, Concentration, and Mechanical Action are the 4 parts of this step. 

What is the wash step? 

400

A person could refer to this Code of Federal Regulations for regulations for food safety, labeling, and manufacturing practices for food and drugs intended to be manufactured and/or distributed in the United States.

What is Title 21?

500

Food safety improvements are identified and prioritized at each Simplot factory using this Food Safety Risk Register.  

What is the RPN List?

500

True or False: 

When investigating a foreign material hit, you only need to check records from the same hour of the incident for any signs of repeatability.

False.  

500

Products that are safe to eat without additional cooking are called this. 

What is Ready to Eat? 

500

National Accounts may require this type of audit in addition to the GFSI audit. 

What is a Food Safety Audit? 

500

Any surface between a growth niche and the food contact zone or surface is this type of point. 

What is a transfer point? 

500

The major food allergens in the US include milk, egg, soybean, tree nut, peanut, Fish, Crustaceans, sesame, and this ingredient which can be found as an ingredient in several batters at Simplot manufacturing sites.

What is wheat?

500

This surface requires a low sanitizer concentration that most surfaces in the factory. 

What is food contact surface?  

Food contact surfaces are regulated to a set concentration per the EPA. 

500

In Simplot Manufacturing Facilities, this process step is identified as a Process Preventive Control, Critical Control Point, to control for the hazard of metal.

What is metal detector (metal detection)?

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