TCS Foods:
Food requiring time and temperature control for safety.
What is TCS foods?
Food hazards such as hair, fingernails, and bandages.
What is Physical hazards?
A government agency who inspects all food except meat, poultry, and eggs.
What is the FDA?
What is the presence of harmful substances in the food?
What is contamination?
What is a disease transmitted to people by food?
What is a Foodborne illness?
milk, fish, cut tomatos, and poultry are what type of food.
What is TCS foods
What is the greatest threat to food safety?
What is biological hazards?
Regulates and inspects meat, poultry, and eggs, food that crosses state boundaries or involves more than one state.
What is the USDA (U.S department of agriculture)
What occurs when microorganisms are transmitted from one food source or surface to another?
What is cross-contamination?
Food handlers can cause a foodborne illness if they fail to wash their hands, come to work sick or touch or scratch wounds and cuts.
What is poor personal hygiene?
What is allowing food to remain too long at a temperature favorable to the growth of foodborne microorganisms?
What is time-temp abuse?
What includes cleaners, sanitizers, polish, machine lubricants, and toxic metals that leak from cookware into food?
What is Chemical Hazards?
purchasing food from unsafe sources, not cooking food right, holding food at wrong temperatures, using contaminated equipment, practicing poor hygiene
What is the CDC's 5 most common risk factors?
What is it called when 2 or more people get the same illness after eating the same food?
What is foodborne illness outbreak?
What is proper personal hygiene?
What is washing your hands, not going to work sick, showering, putting your hair up.
What is ready-to-eat foods?
What is food that can be eaten without further preparation?
what is high risk populations considered?
What is preschool kids, elderly people, people with cancer, transplant recipients.
What is PHS?
What is public health service?
What is 41F to 135F?
What is temperature danger zone?
What is properly washing your hands?
What is washing your hands for 15-20 seconds thoroughly, scrubbing between fingers and wrist, rinsing thoroughly?
What is foods that are most likely to become unsafe?
What is TCS foods and ready-to-eat?
What are the 3 categories of food hazards?
What is biological, chemical, and physical hazards?
What is state and local regulatory authorities job?
What is regulating retail and food service operations?