CP-FS Exam Questions and Answers
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Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) - ✔✔-Created
by the EPA
-Regulates sanitizers
condemnation - ✔✔Declaring unfit for use or sale
Class 1 Food Recall - ✔✔The most serious recall. May cause serious
adverse health consequences.
Variance - ✔✔Modification or waiver from a food code requirement
Misbranding - ✔✔bad labeling; indication incorrect information on the
label. Relates to how a product is represented, primarily on the product
label.
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,Testing requirements for a water supply that comes from a well. -
✔✔Water must be tested at least once per year and a certificate must be
kept on file for review by an inspector
Comminuted Food - ✔✔Reduced in size by methods including chopping,
flaking, grinding or mincing. Examples: ground beef, gyros and gefilte fish.
Grading - ✔✔-optional
-paid for by the processor
-tells the quality of the product
Allowed uses for non-potable water - ✔✔-Only used for non culinary
purposes: fire sprinklers, cooling non-food equipment air conditioning and
irrigation.
-Pipes must be identified as having non-potable water
How long an establishment can be given to correct a priority or priority
foundation violation - ✔✔Generally immediately, but in some cases up to
10 days
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,Adulteration - ✔✔Lowering the quality of food by adding an inferior
substance or removing an important substance
Seizure - ✔✔When the regulatory authority takes physical control of an
item
Abatement - ✔✔termination of a nuisance
Embargo - ✔✔An order prohibiting the removal or use of a particular item
Mobile establishment wastewater tank requirement - ✔✔Water waste tank
must be 15% larger than the supply tank
How often is the food code published and updated? - ✔✔Published every 4
years and updated every 2 years
Hold or Detention - ✔✔Establishment retains product but can't do
anything with it until it is released by the regulatory authority
Conference for Food Protection - ✔✔Meets every two years, makes
recommendations for what should be in the Food Code. Sets standards for
Certified Food Protection
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, DSP symptoms (Diarrhetic Shellfish Poisoning) - ✔✔Nausea, vomiting,
diarrhea and abdominal pain accompanied by chills, headache and fever
PSP symptoms (Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning) - ✔✔Tingling, burning,
numbness, drowsiness, incoherent speech and respiratory paralysis
Giardia Lamblia or Giardasis or Intestinalis - ✔✔-Parasite
-The most non-bacterial form of diarrhea in North America
-from contaminated water
-Associated with day care centers, especially where diapering is done
-lasts 1 to 2 weeks
Clostridium Botulinium or Botulism - ✔✔-Associated with improperly
canned foods, especially home canned, vacuum packed refrigerated foods,
garlic or onions stored in oil and baked potatoes
-Anaerobic, spore forming, intoxication
-Symptoms go "top down" starting with blurry vision, trouble swallowing
and speaking and then trouble breathing.
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Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) - ✔✔-Created
by the EPA
-Regulates sanitizers
condemnation - ✔✔Declaring unfit for use or sale
Class 1 Food Recall - ✔✔The most serious recall. May cause serious
adverse health consequences.
Variance - ✔✔Modification or waiver from a food code requirement
Misbranding - ✔✔bad labeling; indication incorrect information on the
label. Relates to how a product is represented, primarily on the product
label.
1
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,Testing requirements for a water supply that comes from a well. -
✔✔Water must be tested at least once per year and a certificate must be
kept on file for review by an inspector
Comminuted Food - ✔✔Reduced in size by methods including chopping,
flaking, grinding or mincing. Examples: ground beef, gyros and gefilte fish.
Grading - ✔✔-optional
-paid for by the processor
-tells the quality of the product
Allowed uses for non-potable water - ✔✔-Only used for non culinary
purposes: fire sprinklers, cooling non-food equipment air conditioning and
irrigation.
-Pipes must be identified as having non-potable water
How long an establishment can be given to correct a priority or priority
foundation violation - ✔✔Generally immediately, but in some cases up to
10 days
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,Adulteration - ✔✔Lowering the quality of food by adding an inferior
substance or removing an important substance
Seizure - ✔✔When the regulatory authority takes physical control of an
item
Abatement - ✔✔termination of a nuisance
Embargo - ✔✔An order prohibiting the removal or use of a particular item
Mobile establishment wastewater tank requirement - ✔✔Water waste tank
must be 15% larger than the supply tank
How often is the food code published and updated? - ✔✔Published every 4
years and updated every 2 years
Hold or Detention - ✔✔Establishment retains product but can't do
anything with it until it is released by the regulatory authority
Conference for Food Protection - ✔✔Meets every two years, makes
recommendations for what should be in the Food Code. Sets standards for
Certified Food Protection
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, DSP symptoms (Diarrhetic Shellfish Poisoning) - ✔✔Nausea, vomiting,
diarrhea and abdominal pain accompanied by chills, headache and fever
PSP symptoms (Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning) - ✔✔Tingling, burning,
numbness, drowsiness, incoherent speech and respiratory paralysis
Giardia Lamblia or Giardasis or Intestinalis - ✔✔-Parasite
-The most non-bacterial form of diarrhea in North America
-from contaminated water
-Associated with day care centers, especially where diapering is done
-lasts 1 to 2 weeks
Clostridium Botulinium or Botulism - ✔✔-Associated with improperly
canned foods, especially home canned, vacuum packed refrigerated foods,
garlic or onions stored in oil and baked potatoes
-Anaerobic, spore forming, intoxication
-Symptoms go "top down" starting with blurry vision, trouble swallowing
and speaking and then trouble breathing.
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