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Foodborne Illness - Answer✔️✔️-A disease carried or transmitted to people by food
Foodborne Illness Outbreak - Answer✔️✔️-When two or more people experience the
same illness after eating the same food
High Risk Populations - Answer✔️✔️-Infants, preschool age children, pregnant women,
the elderly, people taking meds, people who are ill
Temperature Control for Safety - Answer✔️✔️-TCS
41-135 - Answer✔️✔️-Danger Zone
TCS Foods - Answer✔️✔️-Milk, eggs, shellfish, fish, meats, meat alternatives, untreated
garlic and oil mixtures, baked potatoes, raw sprouts, cooked rice, cut tomatoes, and cut
melos
Biological, physical, chemical - Answer✔️✔️-3 types of contamination
Biological contaminants - Answer✔️✔️-Bacteria, virus, parasites, fungi, natural toxins
Chemical contaminants - Answer✔️✔️-Cleaners, sanitizers, toxic metal from Non Food
Service Grade utensils and cookware, pesticides
Physical contaminants - Answer✔️✔️-Foreign objects
Top reasons for outbreak - Answer✔️✔️-1. Purchasing food from unsafe sources
2. Failing to cook food adequately
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3. Holding food at incorrect temps
4. Contaminated equipment
5. Poor personal hygiene
TTC, cross contamination, poor personal hygiene - Answer✔️✔️-3 ways food becomes
contaminated
Time- temperature abuse - Answer✔️✔️-TCS foods are left in the danger zone for more
than 4 hours
Cross contamination - Answer✔️✔️-Contaminants cross to a food that is not going to be
cooked any further
Poor personal hygiene - Answer✔️✔️-Food handlers cause foodborne illness
Foodborne infections - Answer✔️✔️-When a person eats food containing pathogens
Foodborne intoxications - Answer✔️✔️-Result when a person eats food containing
pathogens, which then grow in the intestines and cause illness
Bacteria - Answer✔️✔️-Found everywhere and under favorable conditions, can grow
rapidly
Food, Acidity, Temperature, Time, Oxygen, Moisture - Answer✔️✔️-FATTOM
Viruses - Answer✔️✔️-Practicing good personal hygiene and minimizing bare hand
contact with ready to eat food can help defend against
Fish toxins - Answer✔️✔️-Scombroid and Ciguatera are
Approved supplier - Answer✔️✔️-All produce should be purchased from an
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