Providing Safe Food
Milk, eggs, poutry, heat treated plant food, sliced melon, sprouts.
What are examples of TCS foods?
Poisons produced by pathogens, plant, or animals.
What are Toxins?
After using the restroom, coughing, eating, handling raw meat.
When to wash hands?
What is cross-contamination prevention?
An incident in which two or more people experience the same illness after eating the same food.
What is a Foodborne-illness Outbreak?
Small, living organisms that can be seen only with the aid of a microscope.
What is a Microorganism?
A minimum of 10-15 seconds.
How long to scrub hands and arms with soap and warm water?
Used to check the temperature of liquids like soups and sauces.
What is an immersion probe?
Air space used to separate a water-supply outlet from any potentially contaminated source. This is the only completely reliable method for preventing back flow.
What is an Air Gap?
Presence of harmful substances in food. Some food safety hazards occur naturally, while others are introduced by humans or the environment.
What is Contamination?
Any disease-producing agent (especially a virus or bacterium or other microorganism).
What is a Pathogen?
Device used to keep food handlers' hair away from food and to keep them from touching it.
What is a Hair Restraint (Hair Net)?
Occurs when microorganisms are transferred from one food or surface to another.
What is Cross-Contamination?
Hepatitis A and Norovirus
What are viruses that cause foodborne illness, 2 of the Big 6 pathogens?
A food handler must stay home and not come into work due to symptoms or diagnosed with a Big 6 illness.
What is excluded?
May be received at 45F, but stored at 41F.
What are shellfish, milk, or shell eggs?
A curved, sealed edge, placed between the floor and wall, eliminates sharp corners or gaps that would be difficult to clean.
What is Coving (coved molding)?
Purchasing food from unsafe sources, failing to cook or hold food at safe temperatures, use of contaminated equipment, poor personal hygiene
What are the 5 main risk factors to food safety?
Assure, Look, Employees, Reports, Threat (ALERT)
What is FDA tool to develop a food defense program?
Employee illness poster, signed statements, proof of training.
What are ways to demonstrate employee health reporting policies?
Under refrigeration, cool running water, in a microwave or as part of cooking.
What are approved thawing methods for TCS food?