CULINARY CERTIFICATION EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
Case - answer-the occurrence of illness affecting one person
Food - answer-anything that people normally eat or drink, including water and ice
Food safety - answer-the safeguarding or protection of food from anything that could
harm a consumers health. This includes all practical measures involved in keeping food
safe and wholesome through all the stages of production to the point of sale or
consumption
Hazard - answer-anything that could cause harm to consumers
Food borne disease outbreak - answer-the occurrence of two or more cases of a similar
illness resulting from the ingestion of food
Reasonable care - answer-management responsibility to take all reasonable
precautions and care to avoid committing a violation
Fda - answer-food and drug administration
Haccp - answer-hazard analysis critical control point
What are the three hazards to food? - answer-biological, physical, and chemical
Bacteria - answer-simple microscopic life forms that are responsible for many food
borne illnesses.
Contaminant - answer-any substance or object in food that makes the food harmful or
objectionable. The word "adulterant" is also used.
Contaminated food - answer-food that could be harmful to health because it contains
something that should not be there
Contamination - answer-the presence in food of any harmful or objectionable substance
or object
Microorganisms/microbes - answer-a very small life from including bacteria, viruses,
molds, yeasts and some parasites.
Organism - answer-an independent life form
Parasite - answer-a life form (organism) that lives on another life form
, Food allergen - answer-a substance in food that causes an allergic reaction with
symptoms ranging from mild to life threatening
Food contact surface - answer-any surface that is touched by food
Hand contact surface - answer-any surface that is touched by a hand
Potable - answer-safe for humans to drink
Pathogen - answer-an organism that causes disease
Spoilage - answer-the process by which food becomes unwholesome
Vehicle contamination - answer-hands, utensils or tools that can carry microorganisms
onto food, causing contamination
Helpful bacteria - answer-can produce antibiotics, kill viruses, make cheese and yogurt
Foodborne illness - answer-any illness caused by eating contaminated food
Toxin - answer-a poison produced by some living organisms, such as bacteria, molds
and algae
Virus - answer-am extremely small, highly infectious pathogen
Foodborne infection - answer-an illness caused by pathogenic microorganisms that live
and multiply in your body after you have eaten contaminated food
Multiplying, multiplication - answer-the way bacteria reproduce and increase their
numbers. This is sometimes referred to as bacterial growth in numbers
Onset or incubation period - answer-the time it takes for the symptoms of a foodborne
illness to start after being contaminated food after it has been eaten
Toxin medicated infection - answer-an illness caused by eating live pathogens that
make toxins as they live in the stomach or intestine.
Highly susceptible population - answer-young children, the elderly, pregnant women,
weakened immune systems
Ambient temperature - answer-ordinary room temperature
Binary fussion - answer-the process by which bacteria multiply by splitting into two
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
Case - answer-the occurrence of illness affecting one person
Food - answer-anything that people normally eat or drink, including water and ice
Food safety - answer-the safeguarding or protection of food from anything that could
harm a consumers health. This includes all practical measures involved in keeping food
safe and wholesome through all the stages of production to the point of sale or
consumption
Hazard - answer-anything that could cause harm to consumers
Food borne disease outbreak - answer-the occurrence of two or more cases of a similar
illness resulting from the ingestion of food
Reasonable care - answer-management responsibility to take all reasonable
precautions and care to avoid committing a violation
Fda - answer-food and drug administration
Haccp - answer-hazard analysis critical control point
What are the three hazards to food? - answer-biological, physical, and chemical
Bacteria - answer-simple microscopic life forms that are responsible for many food
borne illnesses.
Contaminant - answer-any substance or object in food that makes the food harmful or
objectionable. The word "adulterant" is also used.
Contaminated food - answer-food that could be harmful to health because it contains
something that should not be there
Contamination - answer-the presence in food of any harmful or objectionable substance
or object
Microorganisms/microbes - answer-a very small life from including bacteria, viruses,
molds, yeasts and some parasites.
Organism - answer-an independent life form
Parasite - answer-a life form (organism) that lives on another life form
, Food allergen - answer-a substance in food that causes an allergic reaction with
symptoms ranging from mild to life threatening
Food contact surface - answer-any surface that is touched by food
Hand contact surface - answer-any surface that is touched by a hand
Potable - answer-safe for humans to drink
Pathogen - answer-an organism that causes disease
Spoilage - answer-the process by which food becomes unwholesome
Vehicle contamination - answer-hands, utensils or tools that can carry microorganisms
onto food, causing contamination
Helpful bacteria - answer-can produce antibiotics, kill viruses, make cheese and yogurt
Foodborne illness - answer-any illness caused by eating contaminated food
Toxin - answer-a poison produced by some living organisms, such as bacteria, molds
and algae
Virus - answer-am extremely small, highly infectious pathogen
Foodborne infection - answer-an illness caused by pathogenic microorganisms that live
and multiply in your body after you have eaten contaminated food
Multiplying, multiplication - answer-the way bacteria reproduce and increase their
numbers. This is sometimes referred to as bacterial growth in numbers
Onset or incubation period - answer-the time it takes for the symptoms of a foodborne
illness to start after being contaminated food after it has been eaten
Toxin medicated infection - answer-an illness caused by eating live pathogens that
make toxins as they live in the stomach or intestine.
Highly susceptible population - answer-young children, the elderly, pregnant women,
weakened immune systems
Ambient temperature - answer-ordinary room temperature
Binary fussion - answer-the process by which bacteria multiply by splitting into two
