Government Agencies/Plans
This section of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act states that carcinogenic additives cannot be put into foods.
What is the Delaney Clause
Organically and conventionally produced foods meet the same standards EXCEPT in:
What is appearance?
What is shelf life?
Undesirable substances that can cause injury and not food-borne illness such as hair, metal or bone.
what are physical hazards?
The steps a food goes through from being grown, harvested, processed, manufactured, distributed, and finally consumed can be described as
What is Farm to Table?
Mary discovered her gum was sweetened with xylitol. This sweet alcohol is an example of ...
What is a nutritive sugar substitute?
This government agency oversees a plant that produces candied yams?
What is the Food and Drug Administration?
Pesticides that drift from one farm to another are considered this type of additive.
What is incidental?
Undesirable compounds that are toxins such as food additives, prescription drugs or herbicides.
What are chemical hazards?
This is the major concern for all employees connected with food in the farm to table process.
What is safety from food contamination?
The function of this in food is to maintain/improve nutritional quality, facilitate production, processing or preparation.
What are food additives?
This agency is responsible for overseeing 20% of food products in the US.
What is USDA?
A box of cereal states the ingredients are "organic". The cereal differs from conventional cereal in that it contains ingredients grown with:
What are natural fertilizers?
Poisonous seafood or plants are considered this type of hazard.
What are biological hazards?
Careers involved in growing, processing, packaging, transporting, and consuming food are from this classification of industry.
What is the food chain continuum?
Dust particles are considered what type of hazard?
What is a physical hazard?
This agency is responsible for overseeing 80% of food in the US.
What is the FDA?
This must be present, in the US, if the health impact of eating a genetically engineered food is changed.
What is special labeling?
Non microbial hazards can also cause food-borne illness or food-related injury. List the four primary classifications for non-microbial hazards.
What are biological, chemical, physical, and allergen hazards?
Empirical conclusions related to biotechnology are a result of this.
What are known facts?
List the Big 8 Allergens.
What are: Soy, milk, fish, shell fish, wheat, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts.
This is a proactive systematic approach to developing a food safety plan.
What is HACCP?
This is an advantage of hormone fed beef and poultry.
What is a shorter growth cycle to reduce production costs?
The FDA launched this initiative, designed to increase awareness of food defense issues and preparedness.
What is ALERT?
Can gene splicing create new hidden allergen sources poses this type of question
What is an ethical question?
This allows food additives that have long been used with no know health hazards exemption from immediate testing.
What is the GRASS list?