BODY ART LATEST 2026 CORE EXAM MANUAL
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Cease and Desist Order - ✔✔Is a written order issued by the Health Authority which
directs the responsible person to immediately stop doing or allowing a specific action to
occur at a tattoo establishment.
✔✔Chemical skin peeling - ✔✔Method for removing the superficial layer of the skin.
One or more chemicals are applied to the skin resulting in destruction of the superficial
part of the skin. Allows new layer of skin lining to develop.
✔✔Clean - ✔✔Free of visible dirt, dust, sludge, foam, slim(including algae and fungi),
bodily excretions or secretions, rust, scale, mineral deposits, accumulation or impurities,
and/ or other foreign material.
✔✔Communicable Disease - ✔✔Disease which is caused by a specific infectious agent
or its toxic products, and which can be transmitted, either directly or indirectly, from a
reservoir of infectious agents to a susceptible host organism.
✔✔Convenient - ✔✔Located on the same floor and the same wing, where applicable.
Max distance is 200 feet, unless further distance has been approved in writing by the
Health Authority.
✔✔Cosmetic - ✔✔An article intended to be rubbed, poured, sprinkled or sprayed on,
introduced into or otherwise applied to the human body or any part thereof for
cleansing, beautifying, promoting attractiveness or altering the appearance, including
wigs, hairpieces and postiches; and articles intended for use as a component of any
such articles. Shall not include soap
✔✔Cross Contamination - ✔✔The transfer of pathogenic microorganisms to previously
sanitized or sterilized surfaces, equipment, or products.
✔✔Cutting - ✔✔A method of extreme body modification and scarification which creates
scars on the skin by using a sharp object, such as a scalpel or knife, to cut into the skin.
✔✔Dermal punching - ✔✔A method of creating piercings in the body, which removes a
segment of tissue, as opposed to traditional piercing, which makes a half moon shaped
slice in the tissue. It is generally used when large gauge jewelry insertion is desired at
the time of the procedure.
✔✔Device - ✔✔An instruments, apparatus and contrivances, including their
components, parts and accessories, intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation,
treatment, or prevention of disease in man or other animals; or to affect the structure or
any function of the body of man or other animals.
, ✔✔Disinfect - ✔✔To carry out a process which kills most or significantly reduces
pathogenic microorganisms.
✔✔Disinfectant - ✔✔An EPA-registered antimicrobial agent, such as a chemical, or heat
that destroys, neutralizes, or inhibits the growth of pathogenic microorganisms. All
chemical must provide a strength equivalent to at least 100 ppm of free available
chlorine at a pH of 7.0 to 7.6 in their normal use concentration.
✔✔Disinfection - ✔✔A process that reduces the number of pathogenic microorganisms,
but not necessarily bacterial spores, from inanimate objects or skin, to a level which is
not harmful to health.
✔✔Disposable Article - ✔✔An item such as a disposable razor, razor blade, paper
product, drape, stencil, transfer or mimeograph paper, wooden spatula, tube, container,
needle, sharp, paper towel, or any other similar item which is intended or designated to
be discarded after single use or after use on a single patron during one session of tattoo
application.
✔✔Drug - ✔✔An article recognized in the official United States Pharmacopoeia, official
Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States or official National Formulary, or any
supplement to any of them;
An article intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of
disease in man or other animals;
✔✔Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - ✔✔Registered means any chemical or
substance, including sanitizers, sterilizers, biocides, pesticides or other substances,
which is registered with the United States EPA under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide,
and Rodenticide Act. prior to their distribution and use by industry and consumers.
✔✔Environmental surface - ✔✔the surface of any furniture, equipment, fixtures, walls,
floors, ceilings, lavatories, toilets, tables, countertops, cabinets, or similar surface which
is part of a tattoo establishment.
✔✔Equipment - ✔✔tattoo machine, tattoo gun, sterilizer, or similar item used in
preparing for tattoo application, tattoo application itself, and cleanup and sterilization
following tattoo application. This definition excludes disposable or single-use articles
which are discarded after use.
✔✔Extreme body modification - ✔✔any method, other than tattoo, permanent makeup,
or body piercing methods used to alter the appearance, sensation, or function of the
human body for decorative or cultural purposes. Some examples include, but are not
limited to, scarification (branding, cutting, skin peeling), implantation, suspension
piercing, dermal punching, single point piercing, voluntary amputation, tongue and penis
splitting, and neck rings.
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Cease and Desist Order - ✔✔Is a written order issued by the Health Authority which
directs the responsible person to immediately stop doing or allowing a specific action to
occur at a tattoo establishment.
✔✔Chemical skin peeling - ✔✔Method for removing the superficial layer of the skin.
One or more chemicals are applied to the skin resulting in destruction of the superficial
part of the skin. Allows new layer of skin lining to develop.
✔✔Clean - ✔✔Free of visible dirt, dust, sludge, foam, slim(including algae and fungi),
bodily excretions or secretions, rust, scale, mineral deposits, accumulation or impurities,
and/ or other foreign material.
✔✔Communicable Disease - ✔✔Disease which is caused by a specific infectious agent
or its toxic products, and which can be transmitted, either directly or indirectly, from a
reservoir of infectious agents to a susceptible host organism.
✔✔Convenient - ✔✔Located on the same floor and the same wing, where applicable.
Max distance is 200 feet, unless further distance has been approved in writing by the
Health Authority.
✔✔Cosmetic - ✔✔An article intended to be rubbed, poured, sprinkled or sprayed on,
introduced into or otherwise applied to the human body or any part thereof for
cleansing, beautifying, promoting attractiveness or altering the appearance, including
wigs, hairpieces and postiches; and articles intended for use as a component of any
such articles. Shall not include soap
✔✔Cross Contamination - ✔✔The transfer of pathogenic microorganisms to previously
sanitized or sterilized surfaces, equipment, or products.
✔✔Cutting - ✔✔A method of extreme body modification and scarification which creates
scars on the skin by using a sharp object, such as a scalpel or knife, to cut into the skin.
✔✔Dermal punching - ✔✔A method of creating piercings in the body, which removes a
segment of tissue, as opposed to traditional piercing, which makes a half moon shaped
slice in the tissue. It is generally used when large gauge jewelry insertion is desired at
the time of the procedure.
✔✔Device - ✔✔An instruments, apparatus and contrivances, including their
components, parts and accessories, intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation,
treatment, or prevention of disease in man or other animals; or to affect the structure or
any function of the body of man or other animals.
, ✔✔Disinfect - ✔✔To carry out a process which kills most or significantly reduces
pathogenic microorganisms.
✔✔Disinfectant - ✔✔An EPA-registered antimicrobial agent, such as a chemical, or heat
that destroys, neutralizes, or inhibits the growth of pathogenic microorganisms. All
chemical must provide a strength equivalent to at least 100 ppm of free available
chlorine at a pH of 7.0 to 7.6 in their normal use concentration.
✔✔Disinfection - ✔✔A process that reduces the number of pathogenic microorganisms,
but not necessarily bacterial spores, from inanimate objects or skin, to a level which is
not harmful to health.
✔✔Disposable Article - ✔✔An item such as a disposable razor, razor blade, paper
product, drape, stencil, transfer or mimeograph paper, wooden spatula, tube, container,
needle, sharp, paper towel, or any other similar item which is intended or designated to
be discarded after single use or after use on a single patron during one session of tattoo
application.
✔✔Drug - ✔✔An article recognized in the official United States Pharmacopoeia, official
Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States or official National Formulary, or any
supplement to any of them;
An article intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of
disease in man or other animals;
✔✔Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - ✔✔Registered means any chemical or
substance, including sanitizers, sterilizers, biocides, pesticides or other substances,
which is registered with the United States EPA under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide,
and Rodenticide Act. prior to their distribution and use by industry and consumers.
✔✔Environmental surface - ✔✔the surface of any furniture, equipment, fixtures, walls,
floors, ceilings, lavatories, toilets, tables, countertops, cabinets, or similar surface which
is part of a tattoo establishment.
✔✔Equipment - ✔✔tattoo machine, tattoo gun, sterilizer, or similar item used in
preparing for tattoo application, tattoo application itself, and cleanup and sterilization
following tattoo application. This definition excludes disposable or single-use articles
which are discarded after use.
✔✔Extreme body modification - ✔✔any method, other than tattoo, permanent makeup,
or body piercing methods used to alter the appearance, sensation, or function of the
human body for decorative or cultural purposes. Some examples include, but are not
limited to, scarification (branding, cutting, skin peeling), implantation, suspension
piercing, dermal punching, single point piercing, voluntary amputation, tongue and penis
splitting, and neck rings.
