Texas Food Handlers Learn2serve
Questions & Answers
1.Food safety
Answer the practice of eliminating harmful agents from food, preventing
food contamination, and ensuring that food is fit for consumption
2.Common goals for food safety
Answer -prevent contamination
- reduce conditions that favor growth/introduction of microorganisms
that causes illnesses and spoilage
-dispose of food that poses a threat to human health
3.benefits of high standards in food safety
Answer - reduce lawsuits and criminal prosecutions caused by poor
standards
- enable customers to feel comfortable about the safety of the product
being served
- provide an overall cleaner work environment, among other things
4.Neglecting sanitary practices cost by
Answer - lawsuits
- hospitalizations
- food waste
,- costly insurance
- loss of pay/work
- complaints
- business closure
5.foodborne illness
Answer - hard to diagnose
- stomach cramps
- diarrhea
- vomiting
- no true number of cases, 1
in 6 128000 hospitalized,
3000 die
-poor personal hygiene
- contaminated equipment
6.food safety policy
Answer lists the manner in which an establishment will maintain a
food-safe environment
7.most important goal of any food establishment
Answer following the food safety guidelines
8.Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP)
Answer this system is used for examining and managing the ways in
,which food is handled in a food establishment
9.common CCPs
Answer -pest
-time
-temp
-quality of prepped foods
-inventory management while decreasing product waste
10.other criteria control points
Answer -receiving
-storing
-thawing
-cooking
-hot holding
-cooling
-reheating
11.what does the FDA regulate
Answer -food processing
-shipping and manufacturing
-issues recalls of potentially dangerous food
-set labeling standard
-publishes and updates and the Food Code
, 12.Food code marked "Priority item"
Answer contribute most directly to the elimination, reduction, or
prevention of foodborne illnesses or injuries
13.The health codes do not cover
Answer issues related to food export
14.Items covered by food codes
Answer - labeling requirements
- sanitizing the food establishment
- training food service employees
15.what do state agencies conduct
Answer - inspections
- give advice
- enforce food safety laws
- issue permits
16.federal agencies
Answer FDA
United states Department of
Agriculture Environmental
Protection Agency
CDC
National Marine Fisheries Service
Questions & Answers
1.Food safety
Answer the practice of eliminating harmful agents from food, preventing
food contamination, and ensuring that food is fit for consumption
2.Common goals for food safety
Answer -prevent contamination
- reduce conditions that favor growth/introduction of microorganisms
that causes illnesses and spoilage
-dispose of food that poses a threat to human health
3.benefits of high standards in food safety
Answer - reduce lawsuits and criminal prosecutions caused by poor
standards
- enable customers to feel comfortable about the safety of the product
being served
- provide an overall cleaner work environment, among other things
4.Neglecting sanitary practices cost by
Answer - lawsuits
- hospitalizations
- food waste
,- costly insurance
- loss of pay/work
- complaints
- business closure
5.foodborne illness
Answer - hard to diagnose
- stomach cramps
- diarrhea
- vomiting
- no true number of cases, 1
in 6 128000 hospitalized,
3000 die
-poor personal hygiene
- contaminated equipment
6.food safety policy
Answer lists the manner in which an establishment will maintain a
food-safe environment
7.most important goal of any food establishment
Answer following the food safety guidelines
8.Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP)
Answer this system is used for examining and managing the ways in
,which food is handled in a food establishment
9.common CCPs
Answer -pest
-time
-temp
-quality of prepped foods
-inventory management while decreasing product waste
10.other criteria control points
Answer -receiving
-storing
-thawing
-cooking
-hot holding
-cooling
-reheating
11.what does the FDA regulate
Answer -food processing
-shipping and manufacturing
-issues recalls of potentially dangerous food
-set labeling standard
-publishes and updates and the Food Code
, 12.Food code marked "Priority item"
Answer contribute most directly to the elimination, reduction, or
prevention of foodborne illnesses or injuries
13.The health codes do not cover
Answer issues related to food export
14.Items covered by food codes
Answer - labeling requirements
- sanitizing the food establishment
- training food service employees
15.what do state agencies conduct
Answer - inspections
- give advice
- enforce food safety laws
- issue permits
16.federal agencies
Answer FDA
United states Department of
Agriculture Environmental
Protection Agency
CDC
National Marine Fisheries Service
