Food Safety Flashcards
What is food safety ?
Food Safety refers to handling, preparing and storing food in a way to best reduce the risk of individuals becoming sick from foodborne illnesses.
What is the Importance of Food Safety?
It is important to practice food safety to reduce the risk of food poisoning and prevent food from becoming contaminated.
What are the 4 steps to food safety?
Clean
Separate
Cook
Chill
What’s the first method to keep food safe? Explain it.
Keep clean. Wash your hands thoroughly with soap before handling food.
What’s the second method to keep food safe? Explain it.
Separate raw and cooked foods. Do not use the same knife or any other utensil for raw and cooked foods. When buying groceries, make sure that the two are in separate bags.
What’s the third method to keep food safe? Explain it.
Cook foods thoroughly. Unless it is intended (such as cooking a medium rare steak), make sure that meats, seafood and vegetables are completely cooked.
What’s the fourth method to keep food safe? Explain it.
Chill. Keep food at safe temperatures. Bacteria starts to enter food two hours after it is prepared.
How do most Foodborne illnesses happen and how do they recover?
Most foodborne illnesses are acute, meaning they happen suddenly and last a short time, and most people recover on their own without treatment. Occasionally, foodborne illness may lead to more serious complications.
What is a Foodborne illness?
Foodborne illness is an infection or irritation of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract caused by food or beverages that contain harmful bacteria, parasites, viruses, or chemicals.
What are common Foodborne illness symptoms?
Common foodborne illness symptoms include vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, fever, and chills.
What are the 7 steps in food safety and hygiene?
1) Wear a clean apron and head cover.
2) Wash your hands before and after handling food.
3) Keep food preparation surfaces clean.
4) Tie back long hair.
5) Store food appropriately.
6) Wash vegetables and fruit under cold water before use.
7) Wash kitchen and eating utensils after use in hot soapy water. Wash the cleanest dishes first, and then the messiest dishes last, so you don’t have to change the dishwater as often.
What should you use when preparing food? ( it can be considered the 5th step to keep food safe although their are 4)
Use safe water and raw materials when preparing food. Make sure that the fruits and vegetables are thoroughly washed, and the meats and seafood are still safe to eat. If you are not sure if the water is safe, boil it for 10 to 15 minutes.
