Vocabulary
The process of keeping the food supply safe for human consumption.
Government run organization responsible for ensuring the safety of specific products.
Who is the Food and Drug Administration?
Substance added to food during production, processing, treatment, packaging, transportation or storage of food.
What is a Food Additive?
Was designed to decrease the suffering of livestock during slaughter.
What is the Humane Slaughter Act?
Goods in which one unit of the good is substantially equivalent to another unit of the same good of the same quality at the same time and place.
What is Fungible Goods?
What is Food, Drugs, Animal, Veterinary, Medical Devices, Radiation Emitting Products, Cosmetics, Tobacco Products, Vaccines, Blood and Biologics.
Inspects food animals for diseases before and after slaughter.
Who is the Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS)?
Ingredients which are generally recognized by experts as safe. Such as salt, sugar, spices, and monosodium glutamate (MSG).
What are GRAS Ingredients?
Requires all consumer products in interstate commerce be honestly and informatively labeled with the FDA enforcing provision on food, drugs, cosmetics and medical devices.
What is the Fair Packaging & Labeling Act?
Foods, food components or dietary supplements which have nutrients added which do not naturally exit in the product.
What is Fortified Foods?
There are seven steps for these control points.
What are Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP)?
Assures safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education and assistance.
Who is the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)?
What is Color Additive?
Requires all packaged foods to bear nutritional labeling and all health claims for foods to be consistent with terms defined by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
What is the Nutrition Labeling & Education Act?
Foods which undergo a process to replace nutrients lost during processing.
What are Enriched Foods?
These types of information must appear on a cosmetic product. Identify two.
What is Identity Statement, Net Quantity of Contents, Name and Place of Business, Distributor Statement, Material Facts, Warning and Caution Statements, and Ingredients.
Protects human health and the environment and establishes safe drinking water standards.
Who is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency?
A natural ingredient that goes on french fries.
What is salt?
Prohibits interstate commerce of misbranded and adulterated food, drinks, and drugs.
What is the Pure Food and Drugs Act?
Substance added to a food for a specific purpose; will be listed on the ingredient list on food label.
What is Direct Food Additive?
This is a current recall item on the FDA website. (Must be one of the top 10 for today.)
Answers vary.
Responsible for developing and executing federal policy on farming, agriculture, forestry, and food.
These steps are required: The Petition, The FDA Evaluation, Issuing Regulations, Monitoring.
What are the four steps of the Additive Approval Process?
Regulates laws about minimum wages, youth employment, overtime, and payroll record keeping.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act?