FSIS Food Safety

Question 1

What does FSIS stand for?

Answer 1

Food safety and inspection service

Question 2

What is FSIS’ mission?

Answer 2

The Food Safety and Inspection Service protects consumers by ensuring that meat, poultry, and egg products are safe, wholesome, and accurately labeled

Question 3

What does FSIS have jurisdiction over?

Answer 3

all meat, poultry, and egg products for public consumption (import and export)

Question 4

What is the exception to FSIS’ jurisdiction?

Answer 4

Custom slaughter and religious exemption

Question 5

How many poultry carcasses does FSIS inspect per year?

Answer 5

over 9 billion

Question 6

How many swine carcasses does FSIS inspect per year?

Answer 6

over 100 million

Question 7

How many cattle carcasses does FSIS inspect per year?

Answer 7

over 35 million

Question 8

How many egg products does FSIS inspect per year?

Answer 8

3.5 billion pounds

Question 9

What did the Meat Inspection Act of 1906 mandate?

Answer 9

mandatory AM and PM inspection of livestock

Question 10

What was the Meat Inspection Act of 1906 under the jurisdiction of?

Answer 10

Bureau of Animal Industry

Question 11

What was the Food and Drug Act of 1906 under the jurisdiction of?

Answer 11

Bureau of Chemistry

Question 12

Why is ante mortem inspection important?

Answer 12

To prevent ill animals from entering the food chain

To detect conditions/disease not identifiable on postmortem examination

Question 13

What is the BSE ante mortem policy?

Answer 13

Slaughter of non-ambulator disabled cattle prohibited
All clinical signs of CNS disease must be US condemned
Collect samples for BSE testing on ante mortem inspection

Question 14

Under FSIS standards, every carcass must receive _____ _______.

Answer 14

Postmortem inspection

Question 15

What is postmortem inspection divided into?

Answer 15

head, viscera, and carcass inspection

Question 16

What are the beef inspection procedures of the head?

Answer 16

• Examine head surfaces
• Slice and observe the lymph nodes
• Slice and observe the masseters
• Palpate the tongue

Question 17

What are the beef inspection procedures of the viscera?

Answer 17

• observe viscera
• incise lung nodes, heart, and bile duct; observe
• observe and palpate liver
• observe and palpate mesenteric lymph nodes
• observe intestines and spleen

Question 18

What should be observed in postmortem inspection of beef?

Answer 18

Thoracic cavity, abdominal cavity, and pelvic cavity, outer surfaces
Palpate kidneys and diaphragm

Question 19

What does residue sampling test for?

Answer 19

Drugs, pesticides, heavy metals

Question 20

What specific food safety hazards (bacteria) are found in processed foods?

Answer 20

Listeria monocytogenes
Salmonella
E. coli
Campylobacter

Question 21

What products is Listeria monocytogenes found in?

Answer 21

hotdogs, deli meats, salads, and meat spreads

Question 22

What bacteria is responsible for the most reported foodborne illness?

Answer 22

Salmonella

Question 23

What products is E. coli, that FSIS would inspect, found in?

Answer 23

non-intact beef, beef trimmings, and ground beef

Question 24

What do CSO/Enforcement Investigation and Analysis Officers do?

Answer 24

Conduct food safety assessments, enforcement activities, recall investigations, investigate consumer complaints

Question 25

What is FSIS alerted to potential recall by?

Answer 25

• Producing firm
• In-plant inspection personnel
• Consumer complaints
• Lab or epidemiologic data

Question 26

What is Class I of recall classification?

Answer 26

Reasonable probability use of product will cause serious adverse health consequence or death

Question 27

What is Class 2 of recall classification?

Answer 27

Remote probability of adverse health consequence due to use

Question 28

What is class 3 of recall classification?

Answer 28

will not cause adverse health consequence