HACCP quiz Questions and Answers
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What outbreak caused 33 deaths, the most in over 80 years?
a. Cantaloupe and Salmonella
b. Spinach and Salmonella
c. Spinach and E. Coli O157: H7
d. Cantaloupe and Listeria monocytogenes - ✔✔d. Cantaloupe and Listeria
monocytogenes
Eric and Ryan Jensen pled guilty in 2013 to middemeanor charges for the _____ 2011
outbreak
a. Cantaloupe and Salmonella
b. Spinach and Salmonella
c. Spinach and E. Coli O157: H7
d. Cantaloupe and Listeria monocytogenes - ✔✔d. Cantaloupe and Listeria
monocytogenes
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,The Odwalla juice outbreak was due to:
a. Poor refrigeration
b. Contaminated irrigation water
c. Poor food handler hygiene
d. Lack of pasteurization - ✔✔d. Lack of pasteurization
A final report in 2007 indicated that there were 205 illnesses associated with the spinach
E. coli 157: H7 outbreak, however food safety experts estimate that the number of
illnesses was really closer to:
a. 2000
b. 4000
c. 20,000
d. 100,000 - ✔✔b. 4000
Which population is at greatest danger to listeriosis based on the deaths reported in the
case studies?
a. elderly
b. unborn babies
c. people who have the flu
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, d. teenager in hospital - ✔✔a. elderly
Listeria monocytogenes is especially dangerous to unborn babies because:
a. Unborn babies have compromised immune system
b. L. monocytogenes can cross the placenta into the babies blood stream
c. L. monocytogenes is resistant to heating, drying, and freezing
d. All of the above - ✔✔d. All of the above
Between 1998 and 2008, what commodity was associated with the most illnesses (46%):
a. dairy and eggs
b. produce
c. meat and poultry
d. fish and shellfish - ✔✔b. produce
1, 939 illnesses associated with the Salmonella enteritidis outbreak with shell eggs in
2010 was due to:
a. contamination on bird cages
b. contamination in chicken feed
c. poor refrigeration
d. under cooking eggs - ✔✔b. contamination in chicken feed
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100% Pass
What outbreak caused 33 deaths, the most in over 80 years?
a. Cantaloupe and Salmonella
b. Spinach and Salmonella
c. Spinach and E. Coli O157: H7
d. Cantaloupe and Listeria monocytogenes - ✔✔d. Cantaloupe and Listeria
monocytogenes
Eric and Ryan Jensen pled guilty in 2013 to middemeanor charges for the _____ 2011
outbreak
a. Cantaloupe and Salmonella
b. Spinach and Salmonella
c. Spinach and E. Coli O157: H7
d. Cantaloupe and Listeria monocytogenes - ✔✔d. Cantaloupe and Listeria
monocytogenes
Katelyn Whitman, All Rights Reserved © 2025 1
,The Odwalla juice outbreak was due to:
a. Poor refrigeration
b. Contaminated irrigation water
c. Poor food handler hygiene
d. Lack of pasteurization - ✔✔d. Lack of pasteurization
A final report in 2007 indicated that there were 205 illnesses associated with the spinach
E. coli 157: H7 outbreak, however food safety experts estimate that the number of
illnesses was really closer to:
a. 2000
b. 4000
c. 20,000
d. 100,000 - ✔✔b. 4000
Which population is at greatest danger to listeriosis based on the deaths reported in the
case studies?
a. elderly
b. unborn babies
c. people who have the flu
Katelyn Whitman, All Rights Reserved © 2025 2
, d. teenager in hospital - ✔✔a. elderly
Listeria monocytogenes is especially dangerous to unborn babies because:
a. Unborn babies have compromised immune system
b. L. monocytogenes can cross the placenta into the babies blood stream
c. L. monocytogenes is resistant to heating, drying, and freezing
d. All of the above - ✔✔d. All of the above
Between 1998 and 2008, what commodity was associated with the most illnesses (46%):
a. dairy and eggs
b. produce
c. meat and poultry
d. fish and shellfish - ✔✔b. produce
1, 939 illnesses associated with the Salmonella enteritidis outbreak with shell eggs in
2010 was due to:
a. contamination on bird cages
b. contamination in chicken feed
c. poor refrigeration
d. under cooking eggs - ✔✔b. contamination in chicken feed
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