Providing Safe Food
Forms of Contamination
The Safe Food Handler
The Flow of Food:
Introduction
The Flow of Food: purchasing receiving and storage
The Flow of Food:
Preparation
The Flow of Food:
Service
Food Safety Management Sytems
Safe Facilities and Pest Management
Cleaning and Sanitizing
100

When two or more people have the same symptoms from eating the same food

What is a foodborne-illness outbreak?

100

FAT TOM

What is food, acidity, temperature, time, oxygen and moisture?

100

After clearing tables food handlers must do this

What is wash their hands?

100

A cutting board that has been used to prep raw chicken but now needs to be used to pre vegetable should have been this

What washed, rinsed and sanitized?

100

Is inspected and complies with local, state, and federal laws.

What is important when choosing a food supplier?

100

This is why prep tables must be cleaned and sanitized between uses.

What is to prevent cross-contamination?

100

This is the part of the plate that a food handler should avoid touching when serving customers

What is the top of the plate?

100

this is a managers responsibility to actively control risk factors for foodborne illnesses.

What is active managerial control?

100

The is the most important food safety features to look for when selecting flooring, wall and ceiling materials

What are smooth and durable?

100

This is required for measuring the sanitizing rinse temperature in a high-temperature dishwashing machine

What is a maximum registering thermometer?

200

Examples are Sprouts, sliced melon, tofu, baked potatoes, soy proteins 

What are TCS foods?

200

Milk, Soy, Eggs, Wheat, Fish, Crustacean shellfish, Peanuts, Tree nuts and Sesame are this

What are the 9 most common food allergens?

200

This is the minimum time you should scrub your hands with soap?

What is 10 seconds?

200

Type of temperature probe that should be used for temping chicken breast, roasted sirloin or a whole turkey.

What is a penetration probe?

200

Placing the thermometer stem or probe between two packages of product is the best way to temp these products

What is checking the temperature of packaged foods?

(ie. vacuumed packed meat, bags of frozen french fries, bags of frozen vegetables)

200

If using this defrost method, the food must be cooked immediately after thawing

What is using a microwave to thaw food?

200

This is how many utensils are needed on a self-service salad bar with 8 items on it

What is 8?

200

A pest-control program is an example of this

What is food safety program?
200

This organization creates national standards for foodservice equipment

What is NSF?

200

This is the acceptable contact time when sanitizing food-contact surfaces soaked in a chlorine solution

What is 7 seconds?

300

Preschool-age children, elderly people, people with compromised immune systems

What are high-risk populations?

300

Wheezing, hives, rashes, itching, abdominal cramps, diarrhea, swelling

What are food allergy symptoms?

300

This is what a food handler should do after prepping food and before using the restroom

What is take off their apron?

300

this type of thermometer must be inserted in food up to the dimple on the thermometer stem in order to get an accurate reading

What is a bimetallic stemmed thermometer?

300

This is the correct temperature for receiving cold TCS food

What is 41℉ or lower?

300

You have this many hours to get TCS food from 135℉ to below 70℉ 

What is 2 hours?

300

This is the maximum internal temp that a cold TCS food can be held`

What is 41℉ ?

300
A cook preps a beef tenderloin on a cutting board and then immediately cuts pies for dessert on the same cutting board is an example of this

What is using contaminated equipement?

300

This is minimum the space allowed between tabletop equipment and the tabletop

What is 4 inches?

300
This is how often food-contact surfaces that are in constant use must be cleaned and sanitized

What is every 4 hours?

400

This is an important measure for preventing foodborne illness

What is Preventing cross-contamination?

400

Food handlers should do this to prevent allergens from being transferred to food.

What is use clean and sanitized utensils when prepping food?

400

This should be done prior to putting on single use gloves

What is washing your hands?

400

pathogens grow most quickly in this temperature range.

What is between 70℉ and 125℉ ?

400

Can be recieved at 45℉ under the condition that it is cooled to 41℉  or lower within 4 hours.

What is the common practice for receiving milk? 

400
leaving a pan of pasta salad on a prep table while preparing several lunch orders is an example of this

What is time-temperature abuse?

400

This must be taken every time a customer returns to a self-service are for more food

What is a clean plate?

400

Preventing foodborne illness by controlling risks and hazards is the purpose of this

What is a food safety management system?

400

This is the most likely the cause of grease buildup and condensation on the walls and ceiling of an operation

What is the ventilation system is not working correctly?
400

this should be done daily when using sanitizer solution for use on food-contact surfaces

What is test the solution with a sanitizer kit?

500

Examples are salt, ice, chopped lettuce & crackers, hot held food, washed fruit

What are Ready-to-eat foods?

500
stored away from prep areas and food storage

Where are cleaning and sanitizing supplies kept?

500

This should be done when changing tasks while preparing food with single use gloves.

What is wash hands and put on new gloves?

500

This thermometer is used to measure surface temperatures 

What is an infrared thermometer?

500

This causes large ice crystals to form on frozen food and its packaging. 

What is time-temperature abuse?

500

This is the maximum water temperature allowed when thawing food under running water

What is 70℉ ?

500

This is the minimum internal temperature that hot TCS food should be held

What is 135℉?

500

These are the components of an active managerial control includes these

What is identifying risks, corrective action, and training? 

500
A garbage container, running water at least 85℉ or higher, signage, a way to dry hands and soap are all requirements of this

What is a handwashing station?

500

This is the first step that should be done when washing dishes in a three-compartment sink

What is clean and sanitize the sinks and drain boards?

600

These are inadequately cooked food, holding food at incorrect temperatures, using contaminated equipment, practicing poor personal hygiene and purchasing food from unsafe food sources

What are the 5 common risk factors that lead to foodborne illness?

600

Practicing good personal hygiene

What is the most important way to present a foodborne illness from viruses?

600

this can be caused by a food handler whose young daughter has diarrhea

What is risk of food contamination?

600

a thermometer must be accurate to this temperature range.

What is ±2℉ ?

600

This is the minimum information that should be on a label when storing food.

What is the date the food should be discarded?

600

This is the minimum internal cooking temperature for ground turkey

What is 165℉ ?

600

This is the maximum amount of time that hot TCS food without temperature control can be displayed before it must be sold, served or thrown out.

What is 4 hours?

600

a manager asks a chef to continue cooking chicken breasts after seeing them cooked to an incorrect temperature is this type of active managerial control.

What is corrective action?

600

This is the only completely reliable method of preventing backflow

What is an air gap?

600
This is the most important feature for a chemical storage area

What is good lighting?

700

food requiring time and temperature control for safety

What is TCS food?

700

people are the most common reason for this.

What is food contamination?

700

This is what should be done when a food handler that has diarrhea has been diagnosed with illness from Shigella spp.

What is stay home until approved to return to work?

700
this device can be used to monitor both time and temperature abuse during the shipment and storage of food.

What is a time-temperature indicator?

700

This is how many days prepared food may be kept before discarding

What is 7 days?

700

This is the safest way to cool a stock pot of meat sauce.

What is a sink of ice water?

700
This is how often you need to check the temperature of food that is being held with temperature control

What is atleast 4 hours?

700

a manager walking around the kitchen every hour to answer questions and to see if staff members are following procedures is this type of active managerial control

What is management oversight?

700

The is what has happened if a food handler drops the end of a hose into a mop bucket and turns the water on to fill it

What is creating a cross-connection?

700

this is how flatware and utensils should be stored that are clean and sanitized

What is with handles facing up?

800

They have not built up strong immune systems and are at a higher risk for foodborne illness

Who are preschool-age children?

800

set aside the suspected product and label it with "do not use" and "do not discard"

What should be done when there is a suspected foodborne-illness outbreak?

800

This is what a food handler who prepares meals for a child day-care center has a sore throat with fever.

What is stay home?

800

after this amount of time food that has been in the temperature danger zone must be thrown out

What is 4 hours?

800

This is what could occur when storing raw ground turkey above, raw ground pork. 

What is cross-contamination?

800

This food should not be served to a high-risk population.

What is raw seafood?

800

This is the minimum information that needs to be labeled on hot TCS food that has been packed in a heated cabinet for off-site delivery

What is use-by date and time, reheating and service instructions?

800

Identifying risks, monitoring, corrective action, management oversight, training and re-evaluation

What are the steps to take when implementing active managerial controls?

800
a pad paved with asphalt or concrete is a requirement for the installation site of this

What is a trash dumpster?

800

Removing food from the surface, wash, rinse, sanitize and air dry is the correct procedure for this

What is clean and sanitize a prep table?

900

the Agency that regulates and inspects meat, poultry and eggs

Who is the USDA?

900

these are commonly linked with seafood

What are parasites?

900
This is the only time it is acceptable to eat in a food service operation

What is sitting in a break area?

900

using color-coded cutting boards is one way to prevent this.

What is cross-contamination? 

900

Food should be stored this far from the floor.

What is 6 inches?

900
Soup that contains beef should be reheated to this temperature for hot holding

What is 165℉ ?

900

These foods can be handled with bare hands

What are Non ready to eat foods that will be cooked prior to service?

900

Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point systems are referred to as this 

What is a HACCP plan?

900

this should be the 1st step to happen if a broken water main has caused your water to turn brown 

What is contact the local regulatory authority before use?

900

This should always be done when pouring cleaner from its original container into a smaller container

What is label the working container with is contents?

1000

Conducts research into the causes of the foodborne-illness outbreaks and assist in the investigating outbreaks.

What is the CDC?

1000

This is the most important way to prevent a foodborne illness from bacteria?

What is control time and temperature?

1000

This is what a manager of a hospital cafeteria do if a cook calls in with a headache, nausea, and diarrhea

What is tell the cook to stay away from work and see a doctor?

1000

limiting the amount of food that can be removed from a cooler for prepping is this

What is a practice that can help prevent time-temperature abuse?

1000

This is the correct order food should be stored in a cooler.

What is ready to eat food, raw seafood, raw whole beef and pork, raw ground beef & fish, and raw whole & ground poultry?

1000

This is the maximum time that a partially cooked food can be heated in the first part of the cooking process

What is 60 minutes?

1000

These must be in running water at any temperature or in a container of water at 135℉ or higher

What are utensils that are stored in water between uses?

1000
Purchasing food from unsafe sources, failing to cook food correctly, holding food at incorrect temperatures, using contaminated equipment and practicing poor personal hygiene are this.

What are the 5 common risk factors for foodborne illness?

1000

This is the best way to eliminate pests that have entered your operation

What is work with a licensed pest control operator (PCO) ?

1000

This should contain what should be cleaned, when, by whom and how

What is a master cleaning schedule?

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