Illnesses Flashcards
Learn about most of the common food borne illnesses (17 cards)
When is a foodborne illness and outbreak?
- when two or more people get sick.
- when there is an investigation.
- laboratory analysis confirms.
what are the four types of pathogens?
- viruses
- bacteria
- parasites
- fungi
what are the six illnesses you can receive from eating bad food?
- shigella
- salmonella typhi
- nontyphoidal salmonella
- shiga or e. coli
- hepatitis
- norovirus
from the six food borne illnesses what are the two highly contagious ones?
hepatitis A and norovirus
what are the common symptoms if you eat bad food?
diarrhea vomiting fever nausea abdominal pain jaundice
what are the onset times for symptoms of foodborne illnesses?
30 minutes to as long as six weeks
what is a basic characteristic of a virus
requires a living host to grow
to prevent the transfer of pathogens from here and skin to food managers should make sure food handlers what
shower and bathe before work
if a foodborne illness outbreak occurs who should be notified
local regulatory Authority
what type of pathogen is hepatitis A
virus
what are the six conditions in which bacteria need to grow
food acidity temperature time oxygen moisture
fattom
where would you find salmonella typhi
Ready-to-Eat food and beverages human
where would you find salmonella
farm animals or feces of humans with disease poultry eggs meat milk dairy tomatoes peppers cantaloupes
where would you find shigella
food easily contaminated by hand contact with contaminated water
where would you find e coli
cattle beef contaminated produce
what is the most important way to prevent food-borne illnesses from becoming a virus
practice good hygiene
what are three main contaminants
biological pathogens toxic plants mushrooms Seafood
chemical
physical
