Providing Safe Food
What is a food borne illness?
Foodborne illness caused by pathogens.
What is biological contamination?
The acronym for the six conditions bacteria need to grow.
What is FATTOM?
A yellowing of the skin or eyes commonly associated with Hepatitis A.
What is jaundice?
This federal agency inspects, and regulates the interstate transportation of all foods except meat, dairy, and eggs.
What is the FDA?
This occurs when 2 or more people have the same symptoms from eating the same food.
What is a foodborne illness outbreak?
Unexpected objects found in food.
What are physical contaminants?
This pathogen is linked to raw or undercooked ground beef, and contaminated produce.
What is E. coli?
These pathogens do not grow on food and cannot be killed by cooking.
What are viruses?
The agencies assist in investigating foodborne illness outbreaks and conduct research into the causes of those outbreaks.
What are the CDC and the PHS?
Cooking food to the wrong internal temperature, holding it at the wrong temperature, or cooling or reheating food improperly.
What is time and temperature abuse?
These pathogens require a living host to grow and are associated with seafood, wild game, and produce processed with wild game.
What are parasites?
This pathogen is linked to ready to eat food and beverages.
What is Salmonella Typhi?
The best way to prevent causing foodborne illness from viruses.
What is practicing good personal hygiene?
The federal agency which regulates and inspects meat, poultry, and eggs.
What is the USDA?
Cooked rice, untreated garlic and oil mixtures, and sprouts.
What are TCS foods?
This contaminant includes yeasts, molds, and mushrooms.
What is Fungi?
This bacteria is linked to food easily contaminated by hands, such as salads made with TCS foods.
What is shigella?
An employer must do this to an employee when they have had jaundice for 7 days or less.
What is exclude them?
These governmental entities write the rules which regulate retail foodservice establishments?
What are state and local regulatory authorities?
Food that can be eaten without any further preparation, washing, or cooking.
What is ready to eat food?
This type of contamination occurs when acidic foods, such as tomato sauce, are stored in copper containers.
What is chemical contamination?
This pathogen is linked to produce such as tomatoes, peppers, and cantaloupes?
What is Nontyphoidal Salmonella?
The route that viruses are typically transmitted through.
What is the fecal oral route?
The science based code, written by the FDA, which provides recommendations for food safety regulations.
What is the Food Code?