Time and Foods
Food requiring time and temperature control for safety.
What is TCS foods?
Food hazards such as hair, fingernails, bandages, dirt, metal shavings and glass.
Physical Contaminants
What are the safest ways to thaw food ?
In the refrigerator or in the microwave if cooking right way
Harmful micro-organisms are called this.
Pathogens
What is a disease transmitted to people by food?
Foodborne illness
milk, fish, cut tomatos, and poultry are what type of food.
What is TCS foods
What type of contaminant/hazard is the greatest threat to food safety?
Biological hazards
True or False: You only need to use a cutting board when cutting meat .
False: Use a cutting board for all cutting jobs
This occurs when microorganisms/Pathogens are transferred from one food source or surface to another?
Cross-contamination
Food handlers can cause a foodborne illness if they fail to wash their hands, come to work sick or touch or scratch wounds and cuts. What is this called?
Poor personal hygiene
Allowing food to remain too long at a temperature favorable to the growth of pathogens is referred to as?
Time-temp abuse
What includes cleaners, sanitizers, polish, machine lubricants, and toxic metals that leak from cookware into food?
Chemical Contaminants
True or False: You should not use water during a kitchen fire?
True: Do not use water
What are the six conditions that bacteria need to grow ?
FAT TOM
Food
Acidity
Time
Temperature
Oxygen
Moisture
As a food handler,this is best way to avoid spreading Viruses?
Washing your hands
The temperature danger zone is between what temperatures ?
Between 41 to 135 F
Who are considered high risk populations?
Preschool kids, elderly people, people with compromised immune systems.
A government agency who...
inspects all food except meat, poultry, and eggs.
Inspects food transported across state lines.
Issues the annual food code.
What is the FDA?
What is Temperature Danger Zone?
41f to 135F
Name at least 2 risk factors that can lead to food becoming unsafe
Time temp abuse
Poor personal hygiene
Unsafe sources
Cross-contamination
Improper holding or storage temps
Name four TCS foods?
Can include: Meat , Dairy, Fish, Shellfish, Tofu, Soy, Cooked Potatoes, Sprouts, sliced melons, tomatoes, Leafy greens, Untreated Garlic and Oil Mixtures
What are the 3 categories of food contaminants?
Biological, chemical, and physical contaminants?
What are 4 Steps to Fight Bacteria ?
Clean
Cook
Chill
Separate
Name the four pathogens that can contaminate food
viruses
bacteria
parasite
fungus
Chicken has been left out at room temperature for 5 hours. What is this an example of?
Time-temp abuse