Acronyms
FDA
What is the Food and Drug Administration?
Upon every implementation or modification an SSOP requires a thing commonly nicknamed as a John Hancock.
What is a signature?
Regulators have legal authority to access food plants during these hours.
What are reasonable hours?
Or when plant is staffed/in production.
This is the largest group of microorganisms.
What are bacteria?
This safety term is often abbreviated as LOTO.
What is lock-out/tag out?
GMP
What are Good Manufacturing Practices?
Areas that touch food products are considered this type of surface.
What is direct-contact surface?
True or False. OSHA inspectors have authority to take photographs in the plant.
True.
In addition to food and time, most bacteria need this for growth.
When possible sanitarians from a raw side of the plant should remain separated from this area, also abbreviated as RTE.
What is ready-to-eat?
FSIS
False. If for some reason you did not use that specific chemical, you would be considered out of compliance.
True or False. The USDA has authority to require food manufacturing facilities to recall product.
Yeasts, Mold and pseudomonads are considered these types of organisms.
What are spoilage organisms?
This is the process of making fat soluble and easier to remove.
What is saponification?
FSMA
What is Food Safety Modernization Act?
Plants using private wells for its water supply must have the potability of the water documented at this frequency.
What is at least two times a year?
Out of the 3 classes of recalls, this one is most severe.
What is Class 1?
This means there is reasonable probability that the use of, or exposure to the product will result in serious harm or death. i.e. listeria.
Foodborne pathogenic organisms cause illnesses in these two ways.
Bleach is the most effective sanitizer against this type of bacteria.
What is gram-negative? i.e. salmonella.
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What is water activity?
This condition is defined as "free of any soil, tissue, debris, chemical or other injurious substance that could contaminate a meat or poultry food product."
What is clean?
This term for "Mock Recall" is used alternatively to avoid negative connotation with the word recall.
What is Practice Product Recovery?
This foodborne illness can take up to 30 days to onset after ingestion.
What is listeria?
This type of verification involves all of the sense with the exception of taste and hearing.
What is organoleptic?