Pathogens
Allergens
The Safe Food Handler
Temperature control
Misc
100

Many farm animals carry this bacteria naturally. Eating a small amount can make a person sick. Preventing cross contamination between poultry and ready to eat foods can prevent illness caused by this bacteria.

What is Nontyphoidal Salmonella?

100

This severe, potentially life-threatening allergic reaction can cause a sudden drop in blood pressure and restriction of the airway

What is anaphylaxis?

100

Food handlers must scrub their hands for at least this many seconds when washing.

What is 20 seconds?

100

When cooling hot foods, the first step is to drop the temperature from 135°F to 70°F within this timeframe.

What is 2 hours?

100

The temperature danger zone

41-135 degrees farenheit

200

This highly contagious virus is the leading cause of foodborne illness and is frequently spread when infected food handlers touch ready-to-eat food with hands contaminated by feces or vomit.

What is Norovirus?

200
Staff must make sure that allergens are not transferred from food or food contact surfaces containing an allergen to the food served to the customer. An example of how this can happen is cooking shrimp and chicken in the same fryer oil.

What is cross contact?

200

Before handling trash or leaving the food preparation areas, employees must do this to their aprons.

What is remove them?

200

If reheating a TCS food that will be held hot, such as on a steam table, the food must reach this internal temperature for 15 seconds.

What is 165°F

200

Cleaning supplies getting into food accidentally is an example of this specific type of contamination.

What is chemical contamination?

300

This virus is often linked to ready-to-eat food and contaminated water, and one of its hallmark symptoms is jaundice

What is hepatitis A?

300

The top 9 allergens in the US

What are peanuts, tree nuts, milk, eggs, wheat, soy, fish, shellfish, and sesame

300

What employees must use when using ice in the kitchen to get ice out of the machine.

What are sanitized ice scoops (or tongs)? 

300

When receiving cold TCS foods, the internal temperature must be no higher than this specific degree.

What is 41°F

300

his bacteria can grow at colder temperatures, even in the refrigerator, and causes a disease that primarily affects pregnant women and the elderly.

hat is Listeria monocytogenes?

400

FAT TOM stands for

What is food, acidity, temperature, time, oxygen, moisture. The conditions for bacteria to grow

400

What front of house staff must do when guests inform them of an allergy

Verbally communicate with the back of house staff

400

The proper time to use hand antiseptics

What is AFTER handwashing?

400

To properly calibrate a bimetal thermometer using crushed ice and cold water, you must adjust the hex nut until the needle points to this temperature.

What is 32°F

400

Raw or undercooked ground beef is the main culprit for this specific shiga toxin-producing bacteria.

What is Escherichia coli (E. coli)?

500

This spore-forming pathogen grows exclusively in anaerobic conditions and is a major risk factor in improperly canned foods, untreated garlic-and-oil mixtures, and temperature-abused baked potatoes wrapped in aluminum foil.

What is Clostridium botulinum?

500

When preparing an allergen-special order, food handlers must take this three-step action with all equipment, utensils, and prep surfaces to ensure safety.

What is wash, rinse, and sanitize?

500

What an employee must do when they have a wound or boil on their hand finger, or wrist

What is cover it with a finger cot or bandage AND place a single use glove over the cover

500

When receiving live shellfish, the internal temperature must be no higher than this specific degree.

What is 50°F

500

This term refers to the written instructions detailing how to perform a specific task, such as washing pots and pans, within a Food Safety Management System.

What are Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)?

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