PUBH 6011 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔9.3 Explain the difference between infection and intoxication - ✔✔Infection: caused
by Salmonella, Campylobacter, E. coli, and Listeria bacteria in school, bacteria causes
adverse effect
Intoxication: caused by Staph and Clostridium botulinum bacteria, produces toxin and
causes adverse effect
✔✔9.4 Explain issues/conditions that challenge food safety and some basic food safety
practices - ✔✔Conditions that challenge food safety
-Operating without hot water, severe temperature abuse of food, severe vermin
infestation, inadequate cooking temperatures, improper holding temperatures, cross
contamination, poor personal hygiene
Basic food safety practices
-Clean (wash hands and surfaces often), separate (separate raw meats from other
foods), cook (cook to right temperature), chill (refrigerate food promptly)
✔✔9.5 Explain terminology such as solid, hazardous, municipal waste - ✔✔Solid
-any discarded material from industrial, commercial, government, mining, and
agriculture, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material
Hazardous
-listed or characteristic solid waste
-listed: specific (sludge) and nonspecific (toluene)
-characteristic (toxicity, reactive, ignitable, corrosive)
Municipal
-household waste
✔✔9.6 Describe the historical events leading to the RCRA, SARA and CERCLA waste
management laws - ✔✔RCRA
-Times Beach Missouri
, -spray waste oil on dusty roads
-EPA declares health emergency
-RCRA passed
-huge flood
-CDC recommends not to reinhabit
-incinerator and soil is burned
CERCLA
-Niagra, NY
-21,000 tons of toxic waste dumped
-waste oozing, federal health emergency
-toxic dumps discovered
-CERCLA passed
-Love canal
-openly dumped drums
-CERCLA passed
SARA
-Union Carbide pesticide plant
-42 tons of MIC reacts with water and over pressurized tank, released in India
-SARA passed
✔✔9.7 Explain the regulatory scope written into the RCRA, SARA and CERCLA -
✔✔RCRA
-Gives EPA the authority to control hazardous waste from the "cradle-to-grave." This
includes the generation, transportation, treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous
waste. RCRA also set forth a framework for the management of non-hazardous solid
wastes
CERCLA of 1980
-How to handle the mess you've already made
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980
-Also known as Superfund
-For poorly managed or abandoned waste sites
SARA Act of 1986
-Based on the idea that citizens have a right to know what chemicals are in their
community
-Companies have to publish all chemical releases, storage, usage, disposal (above
certain reportable thresholds).
-Powerful tactic to keep emissions down because companies don't want to look bad
-Created Emergency Planning and Community "Right to Know" Act (EPCRA)
-established toxic release inventory (TRI)
✔✔9.3 Explain the difference between infection and intoxication - ✔✔Infection: caused
by Salmonella, Campylobacter, E. coli, and Listeria bacteria in school, bacteria causes
adverse effect
Intoxication: caused by Staph and Clostridium botulinum bacteria, produces toxin and
causes adverse effect
✔✔9.4 Explain issues/conditions that challenge food safety and some basic food safety
practices - ✔✔Conditions that challenge food safety
-Operating without hot water, severe temperature abuse of food, severe vermin
infestation, inadequate cooking temperatures, improper holding temperatures, cross
contamination, poor personal hygiene
Basic food safety practices
-Clean (wash hands and surfaces often), separate (separate raw meats from other
foods), cook (cook to right temperature), chill (refrigerate food promptly)
✔✔9.5 Explain terminology such as solid, hazardous, municipal waste - ✔✔Solid
-any discarded material from industrial, commercial, government, mining, and
agriculture, including solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous material
Hazardous
-listed or characteristic solid waste
-listed: specific (sludge) and nonspecific (toluene)
-characteristic (toxicity, reactive, ignitable, corrosive)
Municipal
-household waste
✔✔9.6 Describe the historical events leading to the RCRA, SARA and CERCLA waste
management laws - ✔✔RCRA
-Times Beach Missouri
, -spray waste oil on dusty roads
-EPA declares health emergency
-RCRA passed
-huge flood
-CDC recommends not to reinhabit
-incinerator and soil is burned
CERCLA
-Niagra, NY
-21,000 tons of toxic waste dumped
-waste oozing, federal health emergency
-toxic dumps discovered
-CERCLA passed
-Love canal
-openly dumped drums
-CERCLA passed
SARA
-Union Carbide pesticide plant
-42 tons of MIC reacts with water and over pressurized tank, released in India
-SARA passed
✔✔9.7 Explain the regulatory scope written into the RCRA, SARA and CERCLA -
✔✔RCRA
-Gives EPA the authority to control hazardous waste from the "cradle-to-grave." This
includes the generation, transportation, treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous
waste. RCRA also set forth a framework for the management of non-hazardous solid
wastes
CERCLA of 1980
-How to handle the mess you've already made
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980
-Also known as Superfund
-For poorly managed or abandoned waste sites
SARA Act of 1986
-Based on the idea that citizens have a right to know what chemicals are in their
community
-Companies have to publish all chemical releases, storage, usage, disposal (above
certain reportable thresholds).
-Powerful tactic to keep emissions down because companies don't want to look bad
-Created Emergency Planning and Community "Right to Know" Act (EPCRA)
-established toxic release inventory (TRI)
