National Environmental Health Association (NEHA)

Question 1

What are the three main types of contamination?

Answer 1

1. Physical
2. Biological
3. Chemical

Question 2

Acute illness

Answer 2

An illness that develops rapidly and produces symptoms quickly after infection

Question 3

Foodborne illness

Answer 3

An acute ill ess resulting from eating contaminated food, symptoms abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, nausea

Question 4

Safe food

Answer 4

Food that is free of contaminants

Question 5

Exclusion

Answer 5

Requiring a worker to leave food establishment as a result of specific illness , symptoms, or exposure to certain disease

Question 6

Food safety management

Answer 6

Policies, procedures, practices, controls and documentation at ensures food sold by a food business is safe to eat and free from contaminets.

Question 7

Food safety policy

Answer 7

Companies commitment to producing safe food, providing satisfactory premises and equipment, and ensuring that legal responsibility are met and appropriate records are maintained .
The document outlines management responsibilities and is used to communicate standards to staff.

Question 8

Person in charge (PIC)

Answer 8

An individual responsible for a food establishment, or the department area of a food establishment

Question 9

How to reinforce importance of high food safety standards.

Answer 9

Motivate
Offer resources and training
Provide solid supervision

Question 10

Included in food safety policy

Answer 10

Personal hygiene, health screening, and illness reporting procedures
Effective temperature control and monitoring practices
Procedures for handling food robe disease outbreaks.

Question 11

4 stages of training

Answer 11

Motivate
Teach
Supervise
Test

Question 12

Acidic

Answer 12

Ph level less than 7.0 as do foods such as vinegar and tomatoes

Question 13

Aerobe

Answer 13

Organism that requires oxygen to multiply.

Aerobic organism

Question 14

Anaerobe

Answer 14

Organism that requires absence of oxygen to multiply.

Anaerobic organism

Question 15

Bacillus cereus

Answer 15

Intoxication bacteria
Commonly found in starchy foods and meat products
Produces two types of toxins:
Emetic causing vomiting
Diarrheal causing diarrhea
Each toxin causes diff type of illness

Question 16

Bacteria

Answer 16

Single cell microorganism
Rigid cell walls that multiply by dividing into two
Some bacteria cause illness, others food spoilage

Question 17

Carrier

Answer 17

Person who harbors and may transmit, pathogenic organisms with or without showing signs if illness

Question 18

Clostridium Botulinum

Answer 18

Intoxication causing bacteria commonly found in soil
Therefor in products that come from soil
Root veggies.
Anaerobic, grows without oxygen
Can also be found in improperly canned foods

Question 19

Decline phase

Answer 19

Bacteria growth where bacteria decreases bc more bacteria are dying than are multiplying

Question 20

Endotoxin

Answer 20

Toxin present in the cell wall of many bacteria that is released in the death of a bacteria

Question 21

Exotoxin

Answer 21

Toxin usually produced during the multiplication of some bacteria. They are highly toxic proteins and are often produced in food

Question 22

Facultative anaerobe

Answer 22

Organism that can multiply with or without the presence of oxygen

Question 23

FAT TOM

Acronym list co dictionary that support rapid growth of microorganisms

Answer 23

Food
Acidity
Time
Temperature
Oxygen
Moisture

Question 24

Generation time

Answer 24

Time between bacterial divisions

Question 25

Phases of bacterial growth

Answer 25

Logarithmic phase Lag phase Stationary phase Decline phase

Question 26

What temperature kills salmonella

Answer 26

165

Question 27

Which bacteria cause a highly deadly food borne illness

Answer 27

Clostridium botulinum | It's anaerobic

Question 28

Bacteria most rapidly multiply between

Answer 28

41-135 | Especially between 70-125

Question 29

Biological contaminates

Answer 29

Bacteria Viruses Parasites Fungi

Question 30

Bacteria

Answer 30

Single called microscopic organisms and cannot be seen with the naked eye

Question 31

Scombrotoxic

Answer 31

Fish poisoning | Happens with fish during storage

Question 32

Phases of bacterial growth

Answer 32

Logarithmic phase- multiply rapidly Lag phase- not multiplying at all Stationary phase-multiply equals dying Decline phase-more dying than multiplying

Question 33

Infection

Answer 33

Longer onset time

Question 34

Intoxication

Answer 34

Acute onset | Quick

Question 35

Parasites

Answer 35

Need animal hosts Live and reproduce within tissue and organs if infected human and animal hosts. Transmitted thr consumption of contaminated food or water