Chapter 19 Flashcards
What government agency is charged with protecting agriculture and the food supply?
B
The Agricultural Security Agency
The potential of a substance to harm someone is known as a
B
toxicity
What term defines the measure of the probability of severity of harm?
A
risk
What term describes the possibility of harm from nor lam use of a substance?
A
hazard
According to the FDA, what is the leading food safety concern?
C
foodborne illness
What branch of the Department of Health and Human Services is responsible for MONITORING food borne illness?
CDC
What is the international agency that has adopted standards to regulate the use of pesticides?
A
FAO
Two or more cases of a similar illness resulting from the consumption of a common food is termed a(n)
B
outbreak
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, how many people in the United States experience food borne illness every year?
C
76 million
What is the leading cause of food contamination in the United States?
B
food poisoning for microbes
Common symptoms of food borne illness caused by the Salmonella organism include all of the following EXCEPT
D
low body temperature
Which of the following is the most common pathogenic microorganism in the U.S. foods?
A
salmonella
The most common symptom of food borne infection include all of the following EXCEPT
D
double vision
What organism is responsible for producing the most common food toxin?
C
Staphylococcus aureus
Approximately how many propel each year affected by Staphylococcus auras food-borne illness?
D
one million
Which of the following is an example of food intoxication?
D
Illness produced from ingestion of food contaminated with natural toxins
Which of the following is a characteristic of botulism illness?
B
it is caused by a toxin compound rather than by inaction of pathogenic bacteria
Which of the following is a characteristic of botulism?
B
a full recovery may take years
What fraction of reported food borne illnesses can be attributed to the food industry?
D
4/5
The industrial application of heat to inactive most but not all bacteria in a food is commonly known as
C
pasteurization
What system was developed by government regulatory agencies and the food industry to help identify and/or control food contamination and food borne disease?
C
Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points
Among food-borne infections, what organisms are the: chief cause of illness/chief cause of death?
B
Salmonella/ listeria
A patient with a high temperature complains of headache, stomach ace, fever, and vomiting. Upon questioning, he admits to eating several raw eggs the day before. The most likely organism causing these symptoms is
B
salmonella
Clostridium botulinum poisoning is a hazard association with
D
improperly canned vegetables
A child is brought into the emergency room with breathing difficulties. He also has difficulty swallowing and speaking. The mother mentions that he ate some home-canned bean yesterday. You suspect microbiological food poisoning. The most likely toxin is
A
botulinum toxin
Which of the following is the major food source fro the transmission of Campylobacterjejuni?
A
raw polutry
Which of the following foods are associated with illness from Salmonella?
D
raw meats, poultry, and eggs
What has been the change in the current amount of imported foods compared with 10 years ago?
D
increased by about 2-fold
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of food safety in the kitchen?
C
Hand washing is significantly more effective than had sanitizers in decreasing bacterial contamination
Which of the following would most likely result from placing cooked hamburger patties on the same plate as that held the uncooked patties?
D
microbial cross-contamination
What is the recommended minimum amount of time for washing hands with warm water and soap before preparing or eating food?
B
20 seconds
A few years ago a foodborne illness outbreak was reported by a national restaurant chain. After dozens of people were infected, authorities determined that employees of the restaurant had used the same knife to cut raw meat products as they did for produce items such as lettuce. Which of the following terms most likely describes the employees’ neglect that led to the patrons of the restaurant becoming ill?
B
cross-contamination
The seal “Graded by USDA” that appears on packaged meat and poultry means that the product is
D
assessed for tenderness
Why is ground meat more susceptible to microbial contamination that underground meat?
A
it has more surface area
You work part-time at a local diner and have noticed that there are a few questionable practices going on behind closed doors. An older employee tells you that the worse of these oversights is the workers’ disregard for the “danger” zone. Which of the following applies to this employee’s warning?
C
keeping beef patties on a warm grill (135 F) for up to 3 hours
What country accounts for most of the reported cases of mad cow disease?
D
United Kingdom
In cows infected with mad cow disease, which of the following tissues is generally free of the infectious agents?
B
muscle
Which of the following is a characteristic meat contamination?
B
consumers are not able to detect the presence of harmful bacteria by odor or taste
All of the following are properties associated with the cooking of hamburgers EXCEPT
A
color alone is usually indicative of “doneness”
Which of the following is NOT a feature of the swine flu virus?
B
it can be transmitted by eating infected pork
What untended benefit is derived from the freezing of fish by the food industry?
B
mature parasitic worms are killed
To minimize the possibility of foodborne illness, hamburger shout be cooked to an internal temperature of at least
C
160
Which of the following is the most appropriate method to thaw turkey?
A
in the refrigerator
Which of the following foods is best known to transmit hepatitis?
B
seafood
Which of the following practices is safest for minimizing microbial contamination of prepared foods?
C
restrict the foods exposure at between 40 F and 140 F to a maximum of 2 hours
Consumption of raw oysters is known to cause hepatitis type
A
A
All of the following are characteristics of raw oyster consumption EXCEPT
A
freezing for 24 hours kills the hepatitis virus
All of the following are rules to help prevent food borne illness EXCEPT
A
use hands to mix foods