Facility Sanitation and Worker Safety

Question 1

Occupational safety and health administration (OSHA)

Answer 1

the main federal agency charged with the enforcement of worker safety and health legislation

Question 2

Food contact surface

Answer 2

a surface of equipment or a utensil with which food comes in contact

Question 3

detergent

Answer 3

cleaning agents, solvents, or any substance that will remove foreign or soiling materials from a surface

Question 4

wetting

Answer 4

the action of a cleaning agent to penetrate between particles of soil and between the layers of soil and a surface to which the soil adheres

Question 5

suspension

Answer 5

the action of a cleaning agent required to hold the loosened soil in the washing solution so it can be flushed away and not redeposited

Question 6

saponify

Answer 6

to turn fats into soap by reaction with an alkali

Question 7

sequestering

Answer 7

isolating a substance (such as a chemical ion) so they cannot react. In foodservice this is a desired characteristic of polyphosphate detergents to bind lime and magnesium of hard water

Question 8

rinsing agent

Answer 8

a compound designed to remove and flush away soils and cleaners so they are redeposited on surfaces being washed.

Question 9

clean-in-place

Answer 9

a method of cleaning that requires no disassembly

Question 10

clean-out-of-place

Answer 10

a method of cleaning whereby equipment can be partially disassembled for cleaning

Question 11

manual cleaning

Answer 11

complete disassembly of equipment can be partially dissembled for cleaning