REHS/RS NEHA Study Guide questions with accurate || || || || || || ||
detailed solutions ||
When gas pipe is leaking, what methods would be used by the technician to identify the exact
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
point of leakage? - ✔✔Using soap bubble solution
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What is the graphic tool used by meteorologists to give a succinct view of how wind speed and
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
direction are typically distributed at a particular location - ✔✔Wind Rose
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What is the lowest portion of Earth's atmosphere called: - ✔✔troposphere (a height of about 3.7-
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6.2 miles (6-10 km)
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What three viruses cause the largest number of known
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|| cases of illness through contaminated food: - ✔✔Hepatitis, Rotavirus, Norovirus
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Shellfish poisoning is caused by a group of toxins produced by: - ✔✔planktonic algae
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(dinoflagellates, in most cases) || || ||
What is the most widely accepted detection method for the saxitoxins (Paralytic Shellfish
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Poisoning) around the world: - ✔✔mouse bioassay (not as useful in Diarrhetic Shellfish
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Poisoning or Neurotoxic Shellfish Poisoning) || || || ||
Pufferfish (also called "fugu" or "blowfish") are thought of as a delicacy - even though they
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
contain this toxin: - ✔✔tetrodotoxin (in some types of pufferfish, some of the organs like the liver
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and skin contain tetrodotoxin; in some pufferfish the toxin is in the meat also; and some have no
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
toxin at all) || ||
Compounds that cause neurological symptoms such as profuse sweating, coma, convulsions,
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
hallucinations, excitement, depression, spastic colon - ✔✔Neurotoxins || || || || || ||
,Compounds that produce rapid, transient nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramping, and diarrhea: - || || || || || || || || || || || ||
✔✔gastrointestinal irritants ||
mushrooms in this category generally are nontoxic and produce no symptoms, unless alcohol is|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
consumed within 72 hours after eating them, in which case a short-lived, acute toxic syndrome is
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
produced: - ✔✔disulfiram‐like toxins || || ||
This is is a human illness caused by consumption of some subtropical and tropical marine finfish -
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
✔✔Ciguatera fish poisoning (caused by consumption of subtropical and tropical marine finfish
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
that have accumulated ciguatoxins through their diets)
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Powdered infant formula is not sterile, and its nutrients provide good conditions for the growth of
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
- ✔✔Cronobacter (after reconstitution)
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Travelers diarrhea is caused by which E. Coli (acronym)? - ✔✔ETEC (Enterotoxigenic
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
Escherichia coli) ||
Cholera is caused by which bacteria - ✔✔Vibrio (but not all Vibrio cause cholera)
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Q fever is caused by which food borne illness causing bacteria - ✔✔Coxiella burnetii (the CDC
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
has declared it a Category B potential bioterrorism agent)
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Plant FOODS that are cooked for hot holding shall be cooked to a temperature of - ✔✔135F
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How long must POULTRY, BALUTS, wild GAME ANIMALS (as specified under
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Subparagraphs 3-201.17(A)(3) and (4)), stuffed FISH, stuffed MEAT, stuffed pasta, stuffed || || || || || || || || || || ||
POULTRY, stuffed RATITES, or stuffing containing FISH, MEAT, POULTRY, or RATITES be || || || || || || || || || || || ||
cooked at 165F? - ✔✔instantaneous || || || ||
,Fish to be served raw must be frozen how cold for how long? (except some Tuna and aquaculture
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
fish) - ✔✔-4F for 7 days, -31 for 15 hours, frozen to-31F until solid then stored -4°F for 24 hours
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If immersion in hot water is used for SANITIZING in a manual operation, the temperature of the
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
water shall be maintained at - ✔✔171F or above
|| || || || || || || ||
Total alkalinity of swimming pools shall be maintained in the range of: - ✔✔60-180 ppm (mg/l)
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
the thick-walled, environmentally resistant structure released in the feces of infected animals that
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
serves to transfer the infectious stages of sporozoan parasites (e.g., Cryptosporidium) to new
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
hosts. - ✔✔Oocyst || ||
Milligrams per Liter (mg/L) is the equivalent metric measure to: - ✔✔parts per million (ppm)
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
liable to ignite spontaneously on exposure to air - ✔✔Pyrophoric
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"RATITE" means - ✔✔a flightless bird such as an emu, ostrich, or rhea. || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Which organization requires cover for baking dough - ✔✔BISSC (Baking Industry Sanitation
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
Standards Committee) ||
The Registered Sanitarians are first and foremost: - ✔✔Educators
|| || || || || || || ||
Common microorganism associated with skin rash in whirlpools? - ✔✔Pseudomonas aeruginosa
|| || || || || || || || || ||
Complaining of extreme eye irritation by swimmers in a swimming pool may be: - ✔✔Improper || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
pH value
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Workers in dental care may receive: - ✔✔Mercury Vapor poisoning
|| || || || || || || || ||
, Most accidents that occur in the home to infants aged 1-4 is caused by: - ✔✔Walking/falling
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Most accidents around swimming pools: - ✔✔Drowning
|| || || || || ||
Which can adversely effect the nerve cell? - ✔✔Neurotoxin
|| || || || || || || ||
This is usually found with Salmonella, caused by contaminated chicken source. High rate of
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
infection: - ✔✔Campylobacter jejuni || || ||
What is the most enteric disease: - ✔✔Norwalk virus
|| || || || || || || ||
The LEAST amount of backfill over the absorption field should be: - ✔✔12-18 inches
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Best method to avoid UST (Underground Storage Tank)problems: - ✔✔Prevent corrosion
|| || || || || || || || || ||
Filters will: - ✔✔Reduce stray radiation
|| || || || ||
Swimmers ear is caused by: - ✔✔Pseudomonas || || || || || ||
A principle for effective radiation protection: - ✔✔distance, time, shielding
|| || || || || || || || ||
Radiation could scatter and bounce off the - ✔✔wall, floor, ceiling
|| || || || || || || || || ||
Know characteristics of alpha particles - ✔✔Are they made of protons & neutrons? Yes
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Is absorbed the most matter? No
|| || || || ||
Do they have a high penetration rate? No
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detailed solutions ||
When gas pipe is leaking, what methods would be used by the technician to identify the exact
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
point of leakage? - ✔✔Using soap bubble solution
|| || || || || || ||
What is the graphic tool used by meteorologists to give a succinct view of how wind speed and
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
direction are typically distributed at a particular location - ✔✔Wind Rose
|| || || || || || || || || ||
What is the lowest portion of Earth's atmosphere called: - ✔✔troposphere (a height of about 3.7-
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
6.2 miles (6-10 km)
|| || ||
What three viruses cause the largest number of known
|| || || || || || || || ||
|| cases of illness through contaminated food: - ✔✔Hepatitis, Rotavirus, Norovirus
|| || || || || || || || ||
Shellfish poisoning is caused by a group of toxins produced by: - ✔✔planktonic algae
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
(dinoflagellates, in most cases) || || ||
What is the most widely accepted detection method for the saxitoxins (Paralytic Shellfish
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Poisoning) around the world: - ✔✔mouse bioassay (not as useful in Diarrhetic Shellfish
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Poisoning or Neurotoxic Shellfish Poisoning) || || || ||
Pufferfish (also called "fugu" or "blowfish") are thought of as a delicacy - even though they
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
contain this toxin: - ✔✔tetrodotoxin (in some types of pufferfish, some of the organs like the liver
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
and skin contain tetrodotoxin; in some pufferfish the toxin is in the meat also; and some have no
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
toxin at all) || ||
Compounds that cause neurological symptoms such as profuse sweating, coma, convulsions,
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
hallucinations, excitement, depression, spastic colon - ✔✔Neurotoxins || || || || || ||
,Compounds that produce rapid, transient nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramping, and diarrhea: - || || || || || || || || || || || ||
✔✔gastrointestinal irritants ||
mushrooms in this category generally are nontoxic and produce no symptoms, unless alcohol is|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
consumed within 72 hours after eating them, in which case a short-lived, acute toxic syndrome is
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
produced: - ✔✔disulfiram‐like toxins || || ||
This is is a human illness caused by consumption of some subtropical and tropical marine finfish -
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
✔✔Ciguatera fish poisoning (caused by consumption of subtropical and tropical marine finfish
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
that have accumulated ciguatoxins through their diets)
|| || || || || ||
Powdered infant formula is not sterile, and its nutrients provide good conditions for the growth of
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
- ✔✔Cronobacter (after reconstitution)
|| || ||
Travelers diarrhea is caused by which E. Coli (acronym)? - ✔✔ETEC (Enterotoxigenic
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
Escherichia coli) ||
Cholera is caused by which bacteria - ✔✔Vibrio (but not all Vibrio cause cholera)
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Q fever is caused by which food borne illness causing bacteria - ✔✔Coxiella burnetii (the CDC
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
has declared it a Category B potential bioterrorism agent)
|| || || || || || || ||
Plant FOODS that are cooked for hot holding shall be cooked to a temperature of - ✔✔135F
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
How long must POULTRY, BALUTS, wild GAME ANIMALS (as specified under
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
Subparagraphs 3-201.17(A)(3) and (4)), stuffed FISH, stuffed MEAT, stuffed pasta, stuffed || || || || || || || || || || ||
POULTRY, stuffed RATITES, or stuffing containing FISH, MEAT, POULTRY, or RATITES be || || || || || || || || || || || ||
cooked at 165F? - ✔✔instantaneous || || || ||
,Fish to be served raw must be frozen how cold for how long? (except some Tuna and aquaculture
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
fish) - ✔✔-4F for 7 days, -31 for 15 hours, frozen to-31F until solid then stored -4°F for 24 hours
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
If immersion in hot water is used for SANITIZING in a manual operation, the temperature of the
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
water shall be maintained at - ✔✔171F or above
|| || || || || || || ||
Total alkalinity of swimming pools shall be maintained in the range of: - ✔✔60-180 ppm (mg/l)
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
the thick-walled, environmentally resistant structure released in the feces of infected animals that
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
serves to transfer the infectious stages of sporozoan parasites (e.g., Cryptosporidium) to new
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
hosts. - ✔✔Oocyst || ||
Milligrams per Liter (mg/L) is the equivalent metric measure to: - ✔✔parts per million (ppm)
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
liable to ignite spontaneously on exposure to air - ✔✔Pyrophoric
|| || || || || || || || ||
"RATITE" means - ✔✔a flightless bird such as an emu, ostrich, or rhea. || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Which organization requires cover for baking dough - ✔✔BISSC (Baking Industry Sanitation
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
Standards Committee) ||
The Registered Sanitarians are first and foremost: - ✔✔Educators
|| || || || || || || ||
Common microorganism associated with skin rash in whirlpools? - ✔✔Pseudomonas aeruginosa
|| || || || || || || || || ||
Complaining of extreme eye irritation by swimmers in a swimming pool may be: - ✔✔Improper || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
pH value
||
Workers in dental care may receive: - ✔✔Mercury Vapor poisoning
|| || || || || || || || ||
, Most accidents that occur in the home to infants aged 1-4 is caused by: - ✔✔Walking/falling
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Most accidents around swimming pools: - ✔✔Drowning
|| || || || || ||
Which can adversely effect the nerve cell? - ✔✔Neurotoxin
|| || || || || || || ||
This is usually found with Salmonella, caused by contaminated chicken source. High rate of
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
infection: - ✔✔Campylobacter jejuni || || ||
What is the most enteric disease: - ✔✔Norwalk virus
|| || || || || || || ||
The LEAST amount of backfill over the absorption field should be: - ✔✔12-18 inches
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Best method to avoid UST (Underground Storage Tank)problems: - ✔✔Prevent corrosion
|| || || || || || || || || ||
Filters will: - ✔✔Reduce stray radiation
|| || || || ||
Swimmers ear is caused by: - ✔✔Pseudomonas || || || || || ||
A principle for effective radiation protection: - ✔✔distance, time, shielding
|| || || || || || || || ||
Radiation could scatter and bounce off the - ✔✔wall, floor, ceiling
|| || || || || || || || || ||
Know characteristics of alpha particles - ✔✔Are they made of protons & neutrons? Yes
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Is absorbed the most matter? No
|| || || || ||
Do they have a high penetration rate? No
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