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Alcohol
Food intolerances/allergies
Food Safety I
Food Safety II
Pregnancy
100
Liver
Where is the chief site of alcohol metabolism?
100
The drug of choice for treating an anaphylactic reaction.
What is Epinephrine?
100
Mad cow disease (spongiform encephalopathies)
What is a prion disease?
100
The agency responsible for the safety of grains, meat, eggs and milk products in United States.
What is USDA?
100
The time period when the fetus is most susceptible to development damage from toxins.
What is two to twelve weeks of gestation?
200
0.08%
What is the legal limit for operating a motor vehicle for people under 21 years old?
200
Non-immunological negative reaction to a particular food.
What is a food intolerance?
200
A bacteria that can cause food borne illness and spontaneous abortion in pregnant women
What is Listeria monocytogenes?
200
GRAS
What is generally recognized as safe? a list of food additives that are accepted as safe by the FDA.
200
This vitamin in excess amounts causes birth defects in babies.
What is vitamin A?
300
The accumulation of fat in the liver
What causes alcoholic hepatitis? Or cirrhosis of the liver
300
A life threatening immune reaction to an allergen.
What is an anaphylaxis?
300
Prevents the intentional (direct) addition to foods of a substance that causes cancer
What is the Delaney Clause?
300
Two viruses that cause food borne illnesses?
What is norovirus and hepatitis A?
300
the virus most frequently passed to babies during pregnancy
What is CMV or cytomegalovirus?
400
Alcohol dependence
What is the most common psychiatric disorder?
400
The 8 most common food allergens.
What are milk, egg, peanut, tree nuts, fish, shellfish, wheat, and soy?
400
The Four C's of food safety
What are Clean, prevent cross contamination, Cook, and Chill?
400
Three common ways to increase the shelf life of foods.
What are pasteurization, aseptic packaging, and food irradiation?
400
pregnancy induced hypertension
What is eclampsia?
500
Poor fetal and infant growth, physical deformities, mental retardation, irritability and hyperactivity
What are the effects of fetal alcohol syndrome?
500
An immune-mediated toxic reaction occurs in the small intestines which results in damage to the small intestine and does not allow food to be properly absorbed.
What occurs during Celiac Disease?
500
An indicator of fecal contamination
What is E. coli?
500
A reason for the increase in food borne illnesses.
What is Mishandling of foods, Preference for meat, cooked “rare”, Use of immunosuppressant medications, Increase in number of older adults, Increased shelf life of products, Centralized food production, Imported ready-to-eat foods, and/ or Antibiotic-resistant strains?
500
folate or folic acid taken during pregnancy
What is the nutrient that help prevent neutral tube defects?