Lesson 2 - Food Sanitation, Safety, and Hygiene

Question 1

It is the prevention of contamination with microorganisms

Answer 1

Food hygiene

Question 2

It is the result of eating contaminated food

Answer 2

Foodborne diseases

Question 3

The assurance that the food will not cause harm to the consumer

Answer 3

Food safety

Question 4

It is the maintenance of conditions which are clean and aims to promote good health

Answer 4

Sanitation

Question 5

Uncertainties and undesirable outcomes

Answer 5

Risks

Question 6

Are the smallest unicellular living organisms that can be in the shape of a rod, spiral, or circle

Answer 6

Bacteria

Question 7

Are heterotopic organisms that possess a chitinous wall

Answer 7

Fungi

Question 8

The simplest and tiniest of all microbes that contains a small collection of genetic material inside a capsid

Answer 8

Viruses

Question 9

TRUE OR FALSE

Viruses are 100x smaller than bacteria

Answer 9

FALSE, they are 1000x smaller.

Question 10

TRUE OR FALSE

Some viruses may survive in freezing or cooling

Answer 10

TRUE

Question 11

These produce spores in their pores, and are considered to be fruits or fungus

Answer 11

Mushrooms

Question 12

TRUE OR FALSE

Yeasts are immediate between molds and bacteria in terms of size?

Answer 12

TRUE

Question 13

These multiply by means of spores, and can synthesize their own growth factors with amino acids

Answer 13

Molds

Question 14

Lives by feeding on another organism for survival

Answer 14

Parasites

Question 15

Give the critical moisture content of most foods

Answer 15

5 to 6%

Question 16

Name all the seven [7] microbes present in foods

Answer 16

[1] bacteria
[2] viruses
[3] fungi
[4] mushrooms
[5] yeast
[6] molds
[7] parasites