Comprehensive Questions (Frequently
Tested) with Verified Answers
When conducting inspections of Food establishments, the food program specialists generally
focus on specific areas - Answer: 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 -
Answer: Pathogen
organism living on or within another living organism and receiving food and protection from it -
Answer: Parasite
Germ essential to countless life processes that are too small to be seen with the human eye -
Answer: Microorganisms
single celled organism that reproduce in the presence or absence of oxygen - Answer: Bacteria
Extremely small organism that depends on "hosts "to survive - Answer: Virus
Contamination of foods by living organisms - Answer: Bio
Found in such things as meat fish poultry shellfish eggs and vegetables - Answer: Bio
Non chemical contaminants not caused by other living organisms - Answer: Physical (duh)