Plant Familiarization
Humane Handling
Ante-Mortem
Post-Mortem
Potpourri
100
Pork chops, beef liver, and sirloin steak would be in this processing category.
What is raw product, intact?
100
A state where an animal feels no painful sensations is termed this.
What is surgical anesthesia?
100
An animal unable to rise and walk unassisted is termed this.
What is non-ambulatory, disabled?
100
You should do this if you observe a carcass with extensive, acute pneumonia, icterus, malignant lymphoma, or any disease condition you've never seen before.
What is rail the carcass out for veterinary disposition?
100
These contaminants are covered by the food safety standard in livestock.
What are fecal, ingesta, and milk?
200
A microorganism capable of causing disease is termed this.
What is a pathogen?
200
A method of slaughter that requires that animals be bled prior to the loss of consciousness as dictated by a religious group?
What is ritual slaughter?
200
A "U. S. Suspect" tag is this color.
What is silver?
200
The head missing at head inspection, horns, hide, or hair present on a carcass, lymph nodes missing from the head, or toenails present on a hog carcass are examples of this.
What is improper presentation?
200
These laws are where FSIS gets its authority to inspect meat, poultry, and eggs.
What are the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA), the Poultry Products Inspection Act (PPIA), and the Egg Products Inspection Act (EPIA)?
300
Grinding, chopping, flaking, or any procedure that reduces particle size is termed this.
What is comminution?
300
Moving animals with this is prohibited in all instances by the humane handling regulations (9 CFR Part 313).
What is an electric prod attached to house AC current with no transformer?
300
A "U. S. Condemned" tag is this color.
What is red?
300
Cystocercosis and Eosinophilic myositis are both often found in these locatations.
What are the head, esophagus, heart, or any other muscle?
300
FSIS verifies the food safety standard for head meat, cheek meat, and weasand meat at this location.
What is at the end of the harvesting process after all the establishments controls and interventions have been implemented?
400
The food safety significance of this step is that metal may contaminate the food during particle reduction.
What is grinding?
400
These are the four approved methods for stunning livestock prior to slaughter.
What are electrical, chemical (carbon dioxide), mechanical captive bolt, and mechanical gunshot?
400
This species is condemned for pyrexia (elevated body temperature) only when the body temperature reaches 106 degrees F.
What are swine?
400
Actinobacillosis, Actinomycosis, Tuberculosis, and Epithelioma are often first observed at this inspection station.
What is the head inspection station?
400
As an on-line inspector performing inspection duties at the final rail of a large beef slaughter operation that has a rail-out procedure, you would do this if you observed a fecal smear on the hind quarter of a carcass.
What is assure that the carcass is railed out for trimming by the establishment and presented for re-inspection?
500
A specific recipe; a list of weights or percentages for each batch; or the process of weighing or measuring of batch ingredients.
What is formulation?
500
Dragging or shackling and hoisting a live conscious animal is considered this type of humane handling noncompliance.
What is egregious?
500
The humane slaughter of an animal that was injured at night, on a holiday, during a weekend, or at another time when an inspector was not on duty or was unavailable is termed this.
What is emergency slaughter?
500
This condition involving the lining of the thoracic cavity often accompanies pericarditis and/or pneumonia.
What is pleuritis?
500
Regardless of where the establishment locates its "zero tolerance" CCP, FSIS off-line personnel verify that the food safety standard for livestock carcasses is met here.
What is at or immediately after the final rail?