Vocabulary
This is a disease transmitted to people by food.
What is a Foodborne Illness?
What challenge is met when a large group of guests enter a restaurant at the same time causing employees to skip important food-safety steps because they feel rushed.
What is time?
A cook finds a piece of glass in a bowl of soup. What type of hazard is this?
What is a physical hazard?
This temperature range is known as the temperature danger zone, where pathogens can grow rapidly.
What is 41-135?
This federal agency is responsible for inspecting meat, poultry, and processed egg products.
What is the USDA?
This is the presence of harmful substances in food.
What is contamination?
A restaurant hires employees who speak several different languages to encourage diversity. The manager may need to adjust training so everyone understands the food-safety procedures, avoiding what challenge?
What is language and culture?
An employee accidentally sprays cleaning solution near uncovered food, and some gets into the food. What type of hazard is this?
What is a chemical hazard?
A food handler checks a pan of chicken salad that has been sitting on a buffet in ice for an hour and records a temperature of 43°F. What should the food handler do?
What is return it to a cooler immediately?
This agency is responsible for protecting the public from foodborne illness by regulating and inspecting most foods, drugs, and bottled water.
What is the FDA?
This means having a weakened immune system. A person in this state has a lower ability to fight off germs like bacteria, viruses, and fungi.
What is immunocompromised?
Employees have different levels of reading ability and education, so a manager may need to use pictures, demonstrations, or simpler written instructions during training. This addresses what challenge?
What are literacy and education?
Salmonella contaminates raw chicken and causes a customer to become sick. What type of hazard is this?
What is a biological hazard?
A restaurant's refrigerator is set to 38°F, but a thermometer shows that a container of tuna salad is 46°F. What should the manager do first?
What is recheck the temperature using a calibrated thermometer?
This is responsible for investigating consumer complaints and illnesses
Who are state and local regulatory authorities?
This occurs when two or more people get the same illness after eating the same food.
What is a Foodborne Illness Outbreak?
A manager has had 4 employees quit over the past month and spends so much time training new employees that food-safety training may receive less attention. What challenge is being described?
What is Staff Turnover?
A customer finds a small piece of metal in their food that broke off a piece of kitchen equipment. What type of hazard is this?
What is a physical hazard?
A pan of cooked rice is removed from the refrigerator at 41°F and placed on a prep table. Two hours later, the rice is 70°F. What is the greatest concern?
What is pathogens may have grown rapidly?
This agency establishes food safety standards and provides the Food Code, which serves as a model for state and local health departments.
What is the FDA?
This is the term for 41-135 degrees, or the range where harmful bacteria grow quickly.
What is the temperature danger zone?
A restaurant purchases food from a source that has not been approved or verified. This creates a food-safety risk before the food even reaches the kitchen. What challenge is this?
What is Purchasing from Unapproved Suppliers?
A food handler has a cut on their hand and fails to cover it properly before preparing food. Staphylococcus aureus contaminates the food. What type of hazard is this?
What is a biological hazard?
A manager discovers that a container of boiled eggs has been held at 50°F for four hours. What should the manager do?
What is throw out the food?
A restaurant is suspected of causing a foodborne illness outbreak. This agency would most likely work with state and local health departments to identify the source, determine how many people became ill, and help stop the outbreak from spreading.
What is the CDC?