Food Flashcards
What are the high and low proper holding temperatures for food?
(Below 40 degrees and above 140 degrees F)
Solid meats should be cooked to a minimum of what temperature to prevent food-borne disease?
(145 degrees F)
What type of food products is Salmonella enteritidis associated with?
(Poultry especially eggs and egg products)
Which of the Salmonella serovars is associated with milk products?
(Salmonella dublin)
(T/F) The growth of Salmonella on contaminated food does not alter the flavor, appearance, or taste of the food.
(T)
People typically experience signs associated with Staphylococcal food poisoning within how many hours of ingesting contaminated food?
(2-4 hours)
What type of Clostridium perfringens is associated with precooking, improper storage of food, and eating leftovers?
(A)
(T/F) Recovery from botulism takes 6-8 weeks.
(F, up to 6-8 months)
Why should babies under the age of one not be fed honey?
(They will not have established bacterial flora that can inhibit C. botulinum from colonizing their intestinal tract)
Which bacteria and its toxin is most likely implicated in a case of food borne disease related to canned food?
(Clostridium botulinum, specifically types A and B are associated with improper canning)
What agent is associated with milk, vegetables, poultry and processed meats and can cause chills, fever, headache, septicemia, and possibly abortions in pregnant women?
(Listeria monocytogenes)
(T/F) Listeria monocytogenes can replicate in the refrigerator so control is through pasteurization, proper cooking, and preventing cross contamination.
(T)
What agent is the most common cause of bacterial enteritis in humans, is associated with cattle, poultry, shellfish, and produce, and may also come from puppies and kittens with diarrhea?
(Campylobacter jejuni)
Some of the sequelae of campylobacteriosis are hemolytic uremia syndrome, guillain-barre syndrome, and one other disease; what is the disease?
(Reactive arthritis)
Why are many outbreaks of campylobacteriosis associated with cross contamination?
(Because the infectious dose is so low)
What is the most common food borne cause of acute renal failure in children?
(Infection with 0157: H7 E. coli)
(T/F) Animals will never show signs of 0157:H7 E. coli infection.
(F, calves may develop bloody diarrhea; slaughter age cattle or older are asymptomatic)
What type of diet is associated with decreasing the number of E. coli organisms in the gut of ruminants?
(Low concentrate diets)
What type of diet is associated with increasing the number of E. coli organisms in the gut of ruminants?
(Feeding distillers grain)
Outbreaks of 0157:H7 E. coli is associated with what food primarily?
(Improperly cooked meat, especially hamburger → also contaminated vegetables, flour, milk, etc.)
What is the toxin produced by 0157:H7 E. coli that causes uremic hemolytic syndrome and subsequent death?
(Shigella toxin)
(T/F) Infection of shellfish with Vibrio spp. is associated with polluted and/or contaminated water.
(F, Vibrio is a naturally occurring infection in water, specifically warmer water)
Of the Vibrio species that cause issues in humans, Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio vulnificus, which is associated with septicemia in individuals with a compromised immune system?
(Vibrio vulnificus → fever, chills, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and septicemia in individuals with compromised immune systems; Vibrio parahaemolyticus → acute gastroenteritis, vomiting, fever, diarrhea, all usually lasting 3 days)
(T/F) Cooking does not inactive ciguatoxin.
(T)
What toxicoses are associated with dinoflagellate algae? Two answers.
(Ciguatera fish poisoning and paralytic shellfish poisoning)
What two bacteria are associated with the breakdown of tryptophan in the muscle of fish to histamine, resulting in Scombroid toxicity?
(Proteus and Klebsiella)