Certified Professional - Food Safety Complete Review
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Define: Simply a *disease-producing* organism. correct answers Pathogen.
Define: An organism that *requires oxygen* to reproduce. correct answers Aerobe. Aerobic
Organism.
Define: An organism that requires the *absence of oxygen* to reproduce. correct answers
Anaerobe. Anaerobic Organism.
Define: An organism that can multiply *with or without the presence of oxygen.* correct
answers Facultative Anaerobe.
Biological Contaminants. These organisms can affect human health through what *3 health
issues*? correct answers Infection, intoxication, and even death.
What agency enforces food safety in restaurants? correct answers State or Local Health
Department.
How does the *FDA Food Code* affect individual states and jurisdictions? correct answers The
"Code" provides a model for new laws and rules in state, local, and tribal jurisdictions.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires that all potentially harmful
substances have a document on file that provides information for emergency treatment should an
employee be injured with the product. This document is called? correct answers Safety Data
Sheet. SDS.
Define: A raw, cooked, or processed edible substance, ice, beverage, or ingredient used or
intended for use or for sale in whole or in part for human consumption, or chewing gum. correct
answers The *Food Code* definition of food.
Define: An operation that stores, prepares, packages, serves, vends, or otherwise provides food
for human consumption. correct answers The *Food Code* definition of a *Food
Establishment.*
Is an establishment that offers *only* prepackaged foods that are not Time/ Temperature Control
for Safety foods considered a food establishment by the *Food Code*? correct answers This is
not considered a food establishment.
What is defined as: an illness that is carried or transmitted to people by food? correct answers
Foodborne Illness (*FBI*).
, As stated in the *Food Code*, what needs the occurrence of *two or more cases* of similar
illness resulting from ingestion of a common food? correct answers Foodborne Disease
Outbreak.
What are the *conditions* that define a foodborne outbreak? correct answers 1. Two or more
people.
2. Same food.
3. Same illness/ symptoms.
What is defined as: A biological, chemical, or physical property that may cause an unacceptable
consumer risk. correct answers Hazard.
What is the *acronym* used to remember that items most commonly associated with the *spread
and prevention* of foodborne illness? correct answers FUELSS.
What does the *FUELSS* acronym stand for? correct answers Exposed *F*ood.
Clean *U*tensils.
Clean *E*quipment.
Clean *L*inens.
Unwrapped *S*ingle *S*ervice or Single Use items (Plastic forks, straws, etc).
Define: The initial growth phase of a culture, during which, cell number remains relatively
constant prior to rapid growth. correct answers Lag Phase.
Define: The steepest slope of the growth curve of a culture - the phase of vigorous growth during
which cell number doubles every 20-30 min. correct answers Log (Logarithmic) or Exponential
Phase.
Define: The plateau of the growth curve after log growth in a culture, during which cell number
remains constant. New cells are produced at the same rate as older cells die. correct answers
Stationary Phase.
What is defined as the ability to produce toxins, is an underlying mechanism by which many
bacterial pathogens produce disease? correct answers Toxigenesis.
What is generated by the bacteria and are actively secreted during exponential growth. This
remain part of the bacterial outer membrane, and are not released until the bacterium is killed by
the immune system. correct answers Exotoxins.
What *exotoxin* produces a *neurotoxin* of unusual potency that affects *ONLY* neurological
tissue? correct answers Clostridium botulinum.
What occurs when bacteria produce and release exotoxin *into* the food and cause illness?
correct answers Intoxication.
Illnesses caused by *intoxication* normally have what kind of onset time? correct answers Short.
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Define: Simply a *disease-producing* organism. correct answers Pathogen.
Define: An organism that *requires oxygen* to reproduce. correct answers Aerobe. Aerobic
Organism.
Define: An organism that requires the *absence of oxygen* to reproduce. correct answers
Anaerobe. Anaerobic Organism.
Define: An organism that can multiply *with or without the presence of oxygen.* correct
answers Facultative Anaerobe.
Biological Contaminants. These organisms can affect human health through what *3 health
issues*? correct answers Infection, intoxication, and even death.
What agency enforces food safety in restaurants? correct answers State or Local Health
Department.
How does the *FDA Food Code* affect individual states and jurisdictions? correct answers The
"Code" provides a model for new laws and rules in state, local, and tribal jurisdictions.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires that all potentially harmful
substances have a document on file that provides information for emergency treatment should an
employee be injured with the product. This document is called? correct answers Safety Data
Sheet. SDS.
Define: A raw, cooked, or processed edible substance, ice, beverage, or ingredient used or
intended for use or for sale in whole or in part for human consumption, or chewing gum. correct
answers The *Food Code* definition of food.
Define: An operation that stores, prepares, packages, serves, vends, or otherwise provides food
for human consumption. correct answers The *Food Code* definition of a *Food
Establishment.*
Is an establishment that offers *only* prepackaged foods that are not Time/ Temperature Control
for Safety foods considered a food establishment by the *Food Code*? correct answers This is
not considered a food establishment.
What is defined as: an illness that is carried or transmitted to people by food? correct answers
Foodborne Illness (*FBI*).
, As stated in the *Food Code*, what needs the occurrence of *two or more cases* of similar
illness resulting from ingestion of a common food? correct answers Foodborne Disease
Outbreak.
What are the *conditions* that define a foodborne outbreak? correct answers 1. Two or more
people.
2. Same food.
3. Same illness/ symptoms.
What is defined as: A biological, chemical, or physical property that may cause an unacceptable
consumer risk. correct answers Hazard.
What is the *acronym* used to remember that items most commonly associated with the *spread
and prevention* of foodborne illness? correct answers FUELSS.
What does the *FUELSS* acronym stand for? correct answers Exposed *F*ood.
Clean *U*tensils.
Clean *E*quipment.
Clean *L*inens.
Unwrapped *S*ingle *S*ervice or Single Use items (Plastic forks, straws, etc).
Define: The initial growth phase of a culture, during which, cell number remains relatively
constant prior to rapid growth. correct answers Lag Phase.
Define: The steepest slope of the growth curve of a culture - the phase of vigorous growth during
which cell number doubles every 20-30 min. correct answers Log (Logarithmic) or Exponential
Phase.
Define: The plateau of the growth curve after log growth in a culture, during which cell number
remains constant. New cells are produced at the same rate as older cells die. correct answers
Stationary Phase.
What is defined as the ability to produce toxins, is an underlying mechanism by which many
bacterial pathogens produce disease? correct answers Toxigenesis.
What is generated by the bacteria and are actively secreted during exponential growth. This
remain part of the bacterial outer membrane, and are not released until the bacterium is killed by
the immune system. correct answers Exotoxins.
What *exotoxin* produces a *neurotoxin* of unusual potency that affects *ONLY* neurological
tissue? correct answers Clostridium botulinum.
What occurs when bacteria produce and release exotoxin *into* the food and cause illness?
correct answers Intoxication.
Illnesses caused by *intoxication* normally have what kind of onset time? correct answers Short.
