Food Safety
Food Technology
Food-Borne Disease
Food Contamination
Miscellaneous
100
Major allergens listed by the FDA

What is milk, egg, fish, crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, and soybeans

100

Chemicals used to control/kill pests that damage crops

What are pesticides?

100

Most common bacterial food-borne illness, caused most commonly by raw or unpasteurized milk, eggs, poultry, meat, oysters, and clams

What is Salmonellosis?

100

Type of food-borne illness specifically caused by toxins released by bacteria

What is bacterial food poisoning? 

100

The parasite found most commonly in beef

What are flatworms?

200
One of the most important things to do before handling food 

What is wash your hands?

200

The reason for use of agricultural pesticides

What is to improve crop yield to feed a growing population?

200

A "salt-requiring" organism found in salt water whose transmission occurs in contaminated waters into contaminated seafood

What is vibrio?

200

1 in _____ get sick each year from food-borne illness.

What is 6?

200

The parasite found most commonly in pork.

What are roundworms?

300

Home canned goods are at heightened risk for this 

What is botulism?

300

The use of ionizing radiation to kill bacteria and parasites that are on food after harvest

What is irradiation?

300

These two food-borne diseases are spread through fecal contamination and transmission.

What are shigellosis and e. coli? 

300
A type of organism that can survive without oxygen

What is anaerobic?

300

Lead was banned from what common household finding in the 1970s

What is paint?

400

This agency enforces federal food safety regulations

What is the U.S. Food and Drug Administration?

400

The controversy surrounding the use of agricultural pesticides is due to these concerns

1. Residue on foods

2. Chemicals in ground water

3. Exposure to farm workers

4. Increasing amount of chemicals needed from insect tolerance

400

The population at heightened risk for listeriosis 

What is the pregnant population?

400

The most common cause of all food-borne illness

What is Norovirus?
400

Mental and neurological deficits in children can be caused by this toxicity. 

What is lead? 

500

The health of a community largely depends on this

What is the safety of its available food and water supply?

500

Chemicals intentionally added to foods to prevent spoilage and extend shelf-life

What are food additives?

500

Symptoms of food borne illness include 

What is nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, headache?

500

The most common parasitic food-borne illness in the United States

What is Giardiasis?

500

This often prevents individuals and families form having adequate access to their community food supply.

What is poverty?