exam questions with correct answers
Thawing food can be part of the cooking process if - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰
✔✔cooked to the requirements of the FDA food code
Foodborne Pathogens easily transmitted through food - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰
✔✔Salmonella, Shigella, Norovirus, E Coli, Hepatits A, Clostridium Botulinum
Salmonella - Cause - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Can be found on any food item
exposed to animal waste
Salmonella - Infection - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔immediate, develops within 12-
72 hours and lasts 4-7 days
Salmonella - Symptoms - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔food poisoining
Salmonella - Prevention - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔avoid cross contamination,
maintain personal hygiene, clean workspaces, cook foods properly
Shigella - Cause - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Pests or human-to-human by infected
feces. Shigella is a bacteria found in the digestive tract of humans
Shigella - Infection - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔develops within 2-3 days of
exposure
,Shigella - Symptoms - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔loose, watery stool. Dysentery in
severe cases
Shigella - Prevention - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔may spread to others through
contaminated stool up to 4 weeks after symptoms have passed
Norovirus - Cause - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔food items or water sources
contaminated with infected feces or fluids
Norovirus - Infection - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔sudden onset, 1-2 days, extremely
contagious
Norovirus - Symptoms - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔gastroenteritis or "stomach flu"
Norovirus - Prevention - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔can be infectious three days -
two weeks after recovery
E.Coli - Cause - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Poor processing and handling of food
that has been contaminated (i.e. manure-based fertilizers). Bacteria found in digestive tract
of humans, most strains harmless.
E. Coli - Infection - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔develops within 3-4 days
E. Coli - Symptoms - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔bloody diarrhea, severe cases cause
blood problems and kidney failure
E. Coli - Prevention - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔proper handling and cooking to
safe temperatures, proper hand washing after restroom, proper fruit and veg washing
, Hepatitis A - Cause - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔raw or undercooked shellfish
harvested from polluted waters, other infected individuals, cold cuts, fresh squeeze juices,
raw fruits and veg, water contaminated with sewage
Hepatitis A - Infection - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔sudden onset, lasts less than two
months
Hepatitis A - Symptoms - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔fever, nausea, loss of appetite,
abdominal discomfort, dark urine, jaundice
Hepatitis A - Prevention - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Proper sanitation, personal
hygeine, water treatment with chlorination, heating to 185 degrees for one minute
Clostridium botulinum - Causes - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔occurs in badly
packaged or damaged canned and vacuum-sealed foods including canned vegetables
Clostridium botulinum - Infection - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔onset 4-6 hours,
targets the nervous system and may cause permanent damage if not treated immediately
Clostridium botulinum - Symptoms - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Botulism,
neurotoxicity - double vision, inability to swallow, speech difficulty, progressive paralysis of
respiratory system, can be fatal
Clostridium botulinum - Prevention - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔canned and
packaged items are in good condition upon receipt, even small dents can be potentially
dangerous (best to return to vendor)
Food spoilage is caused by - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔rough handling, exaggerated
high or ow keeping temps, bacteria, enzymes, mold and pests