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Kitchen workers should wear these when working with food to prevent the spread of norovirus
What are gloves?
Ingredients are listed in descending order by this.
What is weight?
Doing this for 20 seconds with plain soap and running water can prevent the spread of illness-causing bacteria.
What is washing your hands?
Caused by eating food containing a large number of disease-producing bacteria
What is a food infection?
Often associated with raw eggs, this disease causes 2000 deaths per year and can be prevented by rinsing poultry with cold water, cooking meat until there is no pink, and not licking a spatula covered in cake batter
What is Salmonella?
When this is found on natural cheese, it can be removed and the remainder of the cheese may be eaten. If it is found on bread, however, the bread should be thrown out.
What is mold?
These are percentages based on a 2000-kilocalorie diet and is intended to make it easier for a consumer to judge the nutritional quality of a food
What are % Daily Values?
It's important to do this to meat, poultry, seafood, and eggs in your shopping cart to avoid cross-contamination.
What is separate?
A substance added to food to increase its flavor, shelf life, or characteristics
What is an additive?
While this bacteria is commonly found in the intestinal tracts of healthy animals, rare strains of it can lead to cramping, bloody diarrhea, kidney failure, or death
What is E-Coli?
This is the best defense against food borne diseases and should be done before and after food preparation
What is hand washing?
A food label may use this descriptor if the item has less than 2 milligrams of cholesterol and 2 grams (or less) of saturated fat per serving
What is Cholesterol Free?
"Never thaw or marinate foods on the counter," and you should be sure to do this to perishable foods within two hours of exposing them to room temperature.
What is refrigerate or chill?
A microscopic parasite that is entirely dependent on the nutrients inside host cells for its metabolic and reproductive needs
What is a virus?
Pregnant women are 20 more times more likely to get this disease which is why they shouldn't consume soft cheeses (such as feta or brie) and is often found in raw hot dogs and processed meats
What is Listeria?
What is dehydration?
Food manufacturers are allowed to write these on food labels and are meant to describe the relationship between a food or food component and a disease or health-related condition. The FDA has very limited control over these.
What are health claims?
Always do this to fruits and vegetables, even if you are going to peel them.
What is wash?
A type of additive used to evenly distribute the molecules of two liquids that do not normally mix. Mayonnaise is an example of a product that uses this.
What is an emulsifier?
The bacteria which causes this infection can withstand temperatures over 212 degrees! To prevent the infection, foods should be below 40 degrees or cooked to above 140 degrees
What is Staph Aureus?
These are acquired through the ingestion of raw seafood and under-cooked beef or pork. Hogs and steers become intermediate hosts when they graze on sewage-polluted pastures
What are tapeworms?
"Helps promote a healthy heart" or "helps support the immune system" are examples of these types of claims which the FDA has no regulatory control over.
What are structure/function claims?
It's important to cook foods to the correct temperature because bacteria that cause food poisoning multiply quickest between these degrees Fahrenheit
What are 40˚ and 140˚?
A small protein that is resistant to most traditional methods that destroy a protein and is associated with Mad Cow Disease.
What is a prion?
This disease is rare, but is the most severe of the food borne diseases. One way to prevent it is to boil home-canned foods for at least 10 minutes.
What is Botulism?