Food Safety
What is milk, egg, fish, crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, and soybeans
Chemicals used to control/kill pests that damage crops
What are pesticides?
Most common bacterial food-borne illness, caused most commonly by raw or unpasteurized milk, eggs, poultry, meat, oysters, and clams
What is Salmonellosis?
Type of food-borne illness specifically caused by toxins released by bacteria
What is bacterial food poisoning?
The parasite found most commonly in beef
What are flatworms?
What is wash your hands?
The reason for use of agricultural pesticides
What is to improve crop yield to feed a growing population?
A "salt-requiring" organism found in salt water whose transmission occurs in contaminated waters into contaminated seafood
What is vibrio?
1 in _____ get sick each year from food-borne illness.
What is 6?
The parasite found most commonly in pork.
What are roundworms?
Home canned goods are at heightened risk for this
What is botulism?
The use of ionizing radiation to kill bacteria and parasites that are on food after harvest
What is irradiation?
These two food-borne diseases are spread through fecal contamination and transmission.
What are shigellosis and e. coli?
What is anaerobic?
Lead was banned from what common household finding in the 1970s
What is paint?
This agency enforces federal food safety regulations
What is the U.S. Food and Drug Administration?
The controversy surrounding the use of agricultural pesticides is due to these concerns
1. Residue on foods
2. Chemicals in ground water
3. Exposure to farm workers
4. Increasing amount of chemicals needed from insect tolerance
The population at heightened risk for listeriosis
What is the pregnant population?
The most common cause of all food-borne illness
Mental and neurological deficits in children can be caused by this toxicity.
What is lead?
The health of a community largely depends on this
What is the safety of its available food and water supply?
Chemicals intentionally added to foods to prevent spoilage and extend shelf-life
What are food additives?
Symptoms of food borne illness include
What is nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, headache?
The most common parasitic food-borne illness in the United States
What is Giardiasis?
This often prevents individuals and families form having adequate access to their community food supply.
What is poverty?