CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL FOOD SAFETY
COMPLETE EXAM REVIEW WITH FULL
SOLUTIONS
●● Define: An organism that *requires oxygen* to reproduce.
Answer: Aerobe. Aerobic Organism.
●● Define: An organism that requires the *absence of oxygen* to
reproduce.
Answer: Anaerobe. Anaerobic Organism.
●● Define: An organism that can multiply *with or without the presence
of oxygen.*
Answer: Facultative Anaerobe.
●● Biological Contaminants. These organisms can affect human health
through what *3 health issues*?
Answer: Infection, intoxication, and even death.
●● What agency enforces food safety in restaurants?
Answer: State or Local Health Department.
,●● How does the *FDA Food Code* affect individual states and
jurisdictions?
Answer: The "Code" provides a model for new laws and rules in state,
local, and tribal jurisdictions.
●● The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
requires that all potentially harmful substances have a document on file
that provides information for emergency treatment should an employee
be injured with the product. This document is called?
Answer: Safety Data Sheet. SDS.
●● Define: A raw, cooked, or processed edible substance, ice, beverage,
or ingredient used or intended for use or for sale in whole or in part for
human consumption, or chewing gum.
Answer: The *Food Code* definition of food.
●● Define: An operation that stores, prepares, packages, serves, vends,
or otherwise provides food for human consumption.
Answer: The *Food Code* definition of a *Food Establishment.*
●● Is an establishment that offers *only* prepackaged foods that are not
Time/ Temperature Control for Safety foods considered a food
establishment by the *Food Code*?
Answer: This is not considered a food establishment.
,●● What is defined as: an illness that is carried or transmitted to people
by food?
Answer: Foodborne Illness (*FBI*).
●● As stated in the *Food Code*, what needs the occurrence of *two or
more cases* of similar illness resulting from ingestion of a common
food?
Answer: Foodborne Disease Outbreak.
●● What are the *conditions* that define a foodborne outbreak?
Answer: 1. *Two* or more people.
2. Same food.
3. Same illness/ symptoms.
●● What is defined as: A biological, chemical, or physical property that
may cause an unacceptable consumer risk.
Answer: Hazard.
●● What is the *acronym* used to remember that items most commonly
associated with the *spread and prevention* of foodborne illness?
Answer: FUELSS.
●● What does the *FUELSS* acronym stand for?
, Answer: Exposed *F*ood.
Clean *U*tensils.
Clean *E*quipment.
Clean *L*inens.
Unwrapped *S*ingle *S*ervice or Single Use items (Plastic forks,
straws, etc).
●● Define: The initial growth phase of a culture, during which, cell
number remains relatively constant prior to rapid growth.
Answer: Lag Phase.
●● Define: The steepest slope of the growth curve of a culture - the
phase of vigorous growth during which cell number doubles every 20-30
min.
Answer: Log (Logarithmic) or Exponential Phase.
●● Define: The plateau of the growth curve after log growth in a culture,
during which cell number remains constant. New cells are produced at
the same rate as older cells die.
Answer: Stationary Phase.
●● What is defined as the ability to produce toxins, is an underlying
mechanism by which many bacterial pathogens produce disease?
Answer: Toxigenesis.
COMPLETE EXAM REVIEW WITH FULL
SOLUTIONS
●● Define: An organism that *requires oxygen* to reproduce.
Answer: Aerobe. Aerobic Organism.
●● Define: An organism that requires the *absence of oxygen* to
reproduce.
Answer: Anaerobe. Anaerobic Organism.
●● Define: An organism that can multiply *with or without the presence
of oxygen.*
Answer: Facultative Anaerobe.
●● Biological Contaminants. These organisms can affect human health
through what *3 health issues*?
Answer: Infection, intoxication, and even death.
●● What agency enforces food safety in restaurants?
Answer: State or Local Health Department.
,●● How does the *FDA Food Code* affect individual states and
jurisdictions?
Answer: The "Code" provides a model for new laws and rules in state,
local, and tribal jurisdictions.
●● The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
requires that all potentially harmful substances have a document on file
that provides information for emergency treatment should an employee
be injured with the product. This document is called?
Answer: Safety Data Sheet. SDS.
●● Define: A raw, cooked, or processed edible substance, ice, beverage,
or ingredient used or intended for use or for sale in whole or in part for
human consumption, or chewing gum.
Answer: The *Food Code* definition of food.
●● Define: An operation that stores, prepares, packages, serves, vends,
or otherwise provides food for human consumption.
Answer: The *Food Code* definition of a *Food Establishment.*
●● Is an establishment that offers *only* prepackaged foods that are not
Time/ Temperature Control for Safety foods considered a food
establishment by the *Food Code*?
Answer: This is not considered a food establishment.
,●● What is defined as: an illness that is carried or transmitted to people
by food?
Answer: Foodborne Illness (*FBI*).
●● As stated in the *Food Code*, what needs the occurrence of *two or
more cases* of similar illness resulting from ingestion of a common
food?
Answer: Foodborne Disease Outbreak.
●● What are the *conditions* that define a foodborne outbreak?
Answer: 1. *Two* or more people.
2. Same food.
3. Same illness/ symptoms.
●● What is defined as: A biological, chemical, or physical property that
may cause an unacceptable consumer risk.
Answer: Hazard.
●● What is the *acronym* used to remember that items most commonly
associated with the *spread and prevention* of foodborne illness?
Answer: FUELSS.
●● What does the *FUELSS* acronym stand for?
, Answer: Exposed *F*ood.
Clean *U*tensils.
Clean *E*quipment.
Clean *L*inens.
Unwrapped *S*ingle *S*ervice or Single Use items (Plastic forks,
straws, etc).
●● Define: The initial growth phase of a culture, during which, cell
number remains relatively constant prior to rapid growth.
Answer: Lag Phase.
●● Define: The steepest slope of the growth curve of a culture - the
phase of vigorous growth during which cell number doubles every 20-30
min.
Answer: Log (Logarithmic) or Exponential Phase.
●● Define: The plateau of the growth curve after log growth in a culture,
during which cell number remains constant. New cells are produced at
the same rate as older cells die.
Answer: Stationary Phase.
●● What is defined as the ability to produce toxins, is an underlying
mechanism by which many bacterial pathogens produce disease?
Answer: Toxigenesis.
