Hands
When you should wash your hands.
When you are in direct contact with food, touch your face or clothes, use cell phone, smoke, use the restroom, or when you begin and finish handling meat.
Canned food
indefinitely, except highly acidic foods (12-18 months) and baby food (on or before)
You left cooked food out on the counter for 8 hours, what should you do? a. Cook the food for an additional 30 minutes. b. Eat the food. c. Throw the food away.
Throw the food away.
True or False: we can repackage prepared foods for food bank distribution.
False.
When you should wear gloves.
Whenever directly handling food and when serving food (ex. Sorting produce or repacking dry goods, distributing food at food bank, cooking and serving in hygiene).
Dairy and non-dairy milk
10 days
Period of time perishable food can be out-of-temperature (40oF).
Two hours
What foods should you always keep separate to avoid cross-contamination? a. Fresh vegetables and raw meat. b. Raw chicken. c. Fresh peeled potatoes d. Cooked meat and vegetables.
Fresh vegetables and raw meat.
When you should change gloves.
When you touch your face and clothes, use cell phone, smoke, use the restroom, or when you begin and finish handling meat.
Prepared food packaged in store
2 days
Which of the following ways is NOT a safe way to defrost raw meat? A. In the refrigerator B. On the counter C. In the microwave
On the counter.
The most important task before repackaging dry goods
Sanitize the surface you are using to repack
How long you should wash your hands.
What is 20 seconds.
Butter and hard cheese
3 months
While thawing, raw meat should be:
Below all other food, with the meat requiring higher cook temperatures below meat requiring lower cook temperatures.
Environments requiring a bleach bucket.
Wherever food is being distributed (2 for us: kitchen and pantry during food bank)
Licking raw cookie dough or eating raw eggs could cause this foodborne illness.
Salmonella
Soft cheese, yogurt, cottage cheese
14 days
The minimum internal temperature of a hamburguer that has been safely cooked.
160oF
What food or hygiene donations we can NOT accept.