Certification – Ontario Version.
1. Benefits of following safe food handling practices - Correct Ans:
✔✔Customers went places with safe food, no need to spend money
on lawsuits, lower insurance costs, happier customers and not
wasting money by throwing food away .
2. Common symptoms of food borne illness - Correct Ans:
✔✔Stomach cramps, nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, fever and
headache.
3. When foodborne illness is food poisoning? - Correct Ans: ✔✔Cause
by chemicals such as cleanser or even sulphites or monosodium
glutamate (MSG)
4. 3 Types of chemical food poisoning - Correct Ans: ✔✔Metal
(dissolved metal in food), Intentional additives (products to add
color, thicken, firm or preserve food) and Incidental additives
(poisonous chemical such as insecticides, rodenticides or cleaning
chemicals)
5. Dangers and types of physical hazards in food - Correct Ans:
✔✔Dirt, hair, nails, bits of metal. These. can cause from small cuts to
chocking
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, 6. Why food safety is so important? - Correct Ans: ✔✔To avoiding
food contamination and outbreaks, to make sure that the food
preparation, transport and storage were done properly
7. Where food safety legislation applies? - Correct Ans: ✔✔Food
premises
8. Federal legislation - Correct Ans: ✔✔Take care of foods and drugs,
alteration, colouring and bacterial standars
9. Provincial legislation - Correct Ans: ✔✔Take care of condition and
safety under which food in held, prepared and server to the public
10. Municipal legislation - Correct Ans: ✔✔Take care of licensing,
garbage control, sewage disposal, building standard and zoning
11. Responsibilities of food premise owners and operators - Correct
Ans: ✔✔Keep the food safe such as cleaning, wearing cleaning outer
garments and safe environment
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