Food Safety
This can travel from food handlers to food by sneezing or coughing.
What is bacteria?
Raw poultry and eggs
What is Salmonella?
Governmental organization responsible in food safety to oversee and regulate the use of pesticides in the food industry.
What is the EPA (Environmental Protections Agency)?
The food borne illness found in soft cheeses, hot dogs, and cold cuts.
What is Listeria?
Between 40 and 140 degrees is known as this.
What is the danger zone?
These populations are the most vulnerable and at risk for food-borne illness.
Who are children, pregnant women, older adults, and chronically ill people?
raw poultry and unpasteurized milk and under-cooked meats
What is Campylobacter?
The USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) is responsible for this bill which provides support, certainty, and stability to our nation’s farmers, ranchers, and forest managers by enhancing farm support programs, improving crop insurance, maintaining disaster programs, and promoting and supporting voluntary conservation.
What is the Farm Bill?
This occurs when harmful bacteria is spread from one food to another.
What is cross-contamination?
This is the temperature that should be taken at the thickest part of the food and not touching any bones.
The internal temperature?
True or False. Freezing food stops bacteria from growing and kills them.
What is False?
under-cooked ground meat and unwashed vegetables
What is E Coli?
The division of Health and Human Services that is responsible for the overall safety of the nation's food supply.
What is the FDA (US Food and Drug Administration)?
This is the maximum safe level for a certain chemical in the human body.
What is tolerance?
Temperature for beef steaks, roasts, veal, and lamb (medium rare).
What is 145 degrees?
Leaving a potato salad made with mayo sitting out in the sun for several hours may lead to the dangerous growth of bacteria ________?
What are bacteria spores?
canned foods and processed meats
What is Botulism?
The FDA's list that can be used by food processors for specified uses without further testing.
What is the GRAS (Generally Regarded As Safe) list?
True or False. Critics of irradiation are concerned that the process may create harmful byproducts that could lead to cancer and birth defects.
What is true?
Temperature of meats, egg dishes, pork, and ground meats.
What is 160 degrees?
The process of exposing food to high-intensity energy waves to increase shelf life and kill harmful microorganisms.
What is irradiation?
foods kept at the wrong temperature at a buffet or cafeteria
What is Prefringens?
Fat replacers, food additives, and irradiation are all regulated by this governmental organization.
What is the FDA?
This is the spoilage in high-oil content foods due to the breakdown of fats.
What is rancidity?
This is the temperature that poultry, stuffing, and leftovers should be heated to.
What is 165 degrees?