360 food handling course (Texas) -TAP
Series Practice Exam
When conducting inspections of Food establishments, the food
program specialists generally focus on specific areas - Correct Ans:
✔✔1. Food safety practices 2. Time and temperature control 3. HACCP
4. Prevention against contamination 5. Personal hygiene
Disease causing microorganism with no odor/taste which makes it hard
to detect in food - Correct Ans: ✔✔Pathogen
organism living on or within another living organism and receiving food
and protection from it - Correct Ans: ✔✔Parasite
Germ essential to countless life processes that are too small to be seen
with the human eye - Correct Ans: ✔✔Microorganisms
single celled organism that reproduce in the presence or absence of
oxygen - Correct Ans: ✔✔Bacteria
Extremely small organism that depends on "hosts "to survive - Correct
Ans: ✔✔Virus
Contamination of foods by living organisms - Correct Ans: ✔✔Bio
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,Found in such things as meat fish poultry shellfish eggs and vegetables -
Correct Ans: ✔✔Bio
Non chemical contaminants not caused by other living organisms -
Correct Ans: ✔✔Physical (duh)
An example would be a paint chip that has fallen from an old wall to
soup - Correct Ans: ✔✔Physical
Pesticides cleaning liquids and personal grooming products - Correct
Ans: ✔✔Chemical
Pest droppings - Correct Ans: ✔✔Physical
Cat - Correct Ans: ✔✔Biological
Bugs - Correct Ans: ✔✔Biological
Meat next to veggies - Correct Ans: ✔✔Biological
Cleaning chemicals left out - Correct Ans: ✔✔Chemical (duh)
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, What conditions make it possible for pathogens to multiple to harmful
levels? - Correct Ans: ✔✔Food, acidity, time, temperature, oxygen,
and moisture (FAT TOM)
What temperature do most bacteria stop growing at - Correct Ans:
✔✔41*
good refrigerator/ freezer temps - Correct Ans: ✔✔39*
Using heat preservation what temperature must food be heated -
Correct Ans: ✔✔250*
Food can be thawed in running water at or below what temp - Correct
Ans: ✔✔70*
What temp internal food - Correct Ans: ✔✔160*
What temp must hot food on display must be held? - Correct Ans:
✔✔140*
After: - Correct Ans: ✔✔Touching food or face, eating drinking or
smoking, handling raw food,
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Series Practice Exam
When conducting inspections of Food establishments, the food
program specialists generally focus on specific areas - Correct Ans:
✔✔1. Food safety practices 2. Time and temperature control 3. HACCP
4. Prevention against contamination 5. Personal hygiene
Disease causing microorganism with no odor/taste which makes it hard
to detect in food - Correct Ans: ✔✔Pathogen
organism living on or within another living organism and receiving food
and protection from it - Correct Ans: ✔✔Parasite
Germ essential to countless life processes that are too small to be seen
with the human eye - Correct Ans: ✔✔Microorganisms
single celled organism that reproduce in the presence or absence of
oxygen - Correct Ans: ✔✔Bacteria
Extremely small organism that depends on "hosts "to survive - Correct
Ans: ✔✔Virus
Contamination of foods by living organisms - Correct Ans: ✔✔Bio
1
,Found in such things as meat fish poultry shellfish eggs and vegetables -
Correct Ans: ✔✔Bio
Non chemical contaminants not caused by other living organisms -
Correct Ans: ✔✔Physical (duh)
An example would be a paint chip that has fallen from an old wall to
soup - Correct Ans: ✔✔Physical
Pesticides cleaning liquids and personal grooming products - Correct
Ans: ✔✔Chemical
Pest droppings - Correct Ans: ✔✔Physical
Cat - Correct Ans: ✔✔Biological
Bugs - Correct Ans: ✔✔Biological
Meat next to veggies - Correct Ans: ✔✔Biological
Cleaning chemicals left out - Correct Ans: ✔✔Chemical (duh)
2
, What conditions make it possible for pathogens to multiple to harmful
levels? - Correct Ans: ✔✔Food, acidity, time, temperature, oxygen,
and moisture (FAT TOM)
What temperature do most bacteria stop growing at - Correct Ans:
✔✔41*
good refrigerator/ freezer temps - Correct Ans: ✔✔39*
Using heat preservation what temperature must food be heated -
Correct Ans: ✔✔250*
Food can be thawed in running water at or below what temp - Correct
Ans: ✔✔70*
What temp internal food - Correct Ans: ✔✔160*
What temp must hot food on display must be held? - Correct Ans:
✔✔140*
After: - Correct Ans: ✔✔Touching food or face, eating drinking or
smoking, handling raw food,
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