Foodborne illness
Caused by eating toxins produced by the pathogen already in the food.
What is intoxication?
This is the US government's principal agency for protecting the health of all americans and providing essential human services.
What is the department of health and human services?
This is the technology of manipulating DNA for the purpose of improving the quality and safety of food
What is biotechnology?
These two agencies regulate imported food.
What are the USDA and FDA?
Children who are in the 95th percentile or higher for body mass index "BMI" are considered to be this.
What are overweight children?
Most incidents of pathogen-caused foodborne illness can be attributed to this.
What is cross-contamination?
A virus, bacteria, parasite, or other agents that cause disease.
What are pathogens?
As part of the largest governmental reorganization in 50 years, this agency assumed a number of government functions, including keeping Americans safe from bioterrorism.
What is the Department of homeland security?
The heat resistance of microorganisms for a specific product and the heating rate of the specific product are the basis of this
What is thermal processing?
The FDA inspects proximately this percentage of imported food.
What is 1%?
Children who are between this percentile are characterized as at risk of being overweight.
What is the 85th to 95th percentile?
Improper handwashing or having an open wound or diarrhea while preparing food are all considered to be this
What is poor personal hygiene?
The bacterial infections are capable of growing in 39F to 113F degrees and PH 4.8 to 9.0 range and can be found in soil, water, and in intestinal tracks of humans and animals.
What is Listeria Monocytogenes?
The malicious use of plant or animal pathogens to cause devastating disease in agriculture is called this.
Whats is agroterrorism?
A few companies controlling world food production through ownership of this kind of property is a common concern of GMO food cretics
What is intellectual property?
Owners, operators or agents in charge of domestic or foreign facilities that manufacture process pack or hold food for human consumption in the United States are required to do this with the FDA
What is to register their facility?
Somewhat counterintuitive food insecure children are no more likely to be overweight than this group of children
Who are food secure children?
This occurs when pathogens are ingested and produce toxins in the intestines
What is intoxification?
foodborne illnesses are mainly transmitted by this method.
What is the fecal-oral route?
This program was implemented by the federal government to enable collaboration across the government to increase capacity and respond to natural or man-made disease outbreak.
What is the National Biosecurity Integration System?
As a percentage of the total crop, this is the most commonly genetically engineered crop in the United State?
What are Soybeans?
To allicate its inspectors efficiently, imported meat is allowed at this number of US ports.
What is 10?
According to research, this trait among low-income children contributes to childhood obesity
What is the consumption of cheaper high-calorie food?
In April 1995 a man attempted to contaminate the New York City water supply with this
What is Plutonium Trichloride?
The CDC estimated this number of cases of gastroenteritis caused by Noroviruses in the year 2005
What is 23 million?
This law passed in 2002 directs the secretary of the US department of health and human services to develop and implement a coordinated strategy for caring out health-related activities to prepare for and respond to bioterrorism
What is the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002?
This early FDA-approved genetically modified food was modified to prolong its shelf life.
What is the FLAVR SAVR tomato?
Federal agencies have implemented a risk-based system for fruit and vegetable commodities subject to these kinds of measures.
What are phytosanitary measures?
This percentage of US children and adolescents between the ages of two and nineteen are considered to be overweight
What is 17.1 %?
Viruses such as Shigella or Hepatitis A can be introduced from infected humans who handle the food or by these two possibilities.
What is Cross-contamination from raw meat or poultry or by contaminated equipment used to process the food?