CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL FOOD SAFETY
EXAM SCRIPT WITH VERIFIED QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
●● Food Processing Plant
Answer: Commercial operation that manufactures, packages, labels or
stores food for human consumption and provides food for sale or
distribution of other business entities such as food processing plants or
food establishments.
●● Employee
Answer: The permit holder, person in charge, food employee, person
having supervisory or management duties, person on the payroll, family
member, volunteer, person performing work under contractual
agreement, or other person working in a food establishment.
●● Conditional Employee
Answer: A potential foodservice employee to whom a job offer is made
conditional on responses to subsequent medical questions or
examinations designed to identify potential food employees who may be
suffering from a disease that can be transmitted through food and done
in compliance with Title 1 of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
of 1990.
,●● Food Establishment
Answer: An operation that stores, prepares, packages, serves, vends, or
otherwise provides food for human consumption.
●● Risk
Answer: The likelihood that an adverse health effect will occur within a
population as a result of a hazard in the food.
●● Hazard
Answer: A biological, chemical, or physical agent that is reasonably
likely to cause illness or injury in the absence of it control.
●● Regulatory Authority (RA)
Answer: The local, state, or federal agency with jurisdiction over the
food establishment.
●● Cod of Federal Regulations (CFR)
Answer: * The codification of the general and permanent rules published
in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the
Federal Government
* Also called Administrative Law
●● Inspection order or inspection warrant
,Answer: an order by a court that specifically authorizes the regulatory
authority to perform an inspection or search. Used when entrance into a
facility is denied.
●● Search and Seizure
Answer: Examination of a person's property by law enforcement
officials investigating a crime and the taking of items as potential
evidence.
●● Exclude or Exclusion
Answer: To prevent a person from working as an employee in a food
establishment or entering a food establishment as an employee
●● Implied Consent
Answer: The fact that you are operating an establishment with a permit
means that you agree to inspections as part of the conditions of the
permit
●● Informed Consent
Answer: Agreeing to proceed with an activity but acknowledging that
there is a risk involved
●● Immunocompromised, high risk, or highly susceptible populations
(HSP)
, Answer: * The very young (preschoolers)
* The elderly
* Pregnant women
* People taking certain medications
* People with certain illnesses
●● Adulteration
Answer: Lowering the quality of food by adding an inferior substance or
removing an important substance. A food is adulterated if it contains any
poisonous or deleterious substance that may render it injurious to health.
●● Misbranding
Answer: bad labeling that indicated incorrect information on the label.
Relates to how a product is represented, primarily on the product level.
A food is deemed misbranded if it's labeling is false or misleading.
●● Comminuted food
Answer: Food that has been reduced in size by chopping, flaking,
grinding, or mincing.
Examples: ground beef, gyros, and gefilte fish
EXAM SCRIPT WITH VERIFIED QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
●● Food Processing Plant
Answer: Commercial operation that manufactures, packages, labels or
stores food for human consumption and provides food for sale or
distribution of other business entities such as food processing plants or
food establishments.
●● Employee
Answer: The permit holder, person in charge, food employee, person
having supervisory or management duties, person on the payroll, family
member, volunteer, person performing work under contractual
agreement, or other person working in a food establishment.
●● Conditional Employee
Answer: A potential foodservice employee to whom a job offer is made
conditional on responses to subsequent medical questions or
examinations designed to identify potential food employees who may be
suffering from a disease that can be transmitted through food and done
in compliance with Title 1 of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
of 1990.
,●● Food Establishment
Answer: An operation that stores, prepares, packages, serves, vends, or
otherwise provides food for human consumption.
●● Risk
Answer: The likelihood that an adverse health effect will occur within a
population as a result of a hazard in the food.
●● Hazard
Answer: A biological, chemical, or physical agent that is reasonably
likely to cause illness or injury in the absence of it control.
●● Regulatory Authority (RA)
Answer: The local, state, or federal agency with jurisdiction over the
food establishment.
●● Cod of Federal Regulations (CFR)
Answer: * The codification of the general and permanent rules published
in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the
Federal Government
* Also called Administrative Law
●● Inspection order or inspection warrant
,Answer: an order by a court that specifically authorizes the regulatory
authority to perform an inspection or search. Used when entrance into a
facility is denied.
●● Search and Seizure
Answer: Examination of a person's property by law enforcement
officials investigating a crime and the taking of items as potential
evidence.
●● Exclude or Exclusion
Answer: To prevent a person from working as an employee in a food
establishment or entering a food establishment as an employee
●● Implied Consent
Answer: The fact that you are operating an establishment with a permit
means that you agree to inspections as part of the conditions of the
permit
●● Informed Consent
Answer: Agreeing to proceed with an activity but acknowledging that
there is a risk involved
●● Immunocompromised, high risk, or highly susceptible populations
(HSP)
, Answer: * The very young (preschoolers)
* The elderly
* Pregnant women
* People taking certain medications
* People with certain illnesses
●● Adulteration
Answer: Lowering the quality of food by adding an inferior substance or
removing an important substance. A food is adulterated if it contains any
poisonous or deleterious substance that may render it injurious to health.
●● Misbranding
Answer: bad labeling that indicated incorrect information on the label.
Relates to how a product is represented, primarily on the product level.
A food is deemed misbranded if it's labeling is false or misleading.
●● Comminuted food
Answer: Food that has been reduced in size by chopping, flaking,
grinding, or mincing.
Examples: ground beef, gyros, and gefilte fish
