HACCP Exam Questions with complete solutions

HACCP Exam Questions with complete solutions HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point) - Answer-- the most effective system to ensure *food safety* - A methodical and systematic application of *science and technology* to plan, control and document the *safe production* of foods HACCP is a common sense approach based on... - Answer-prevention rather than inspection Identify where and how (hazard analysis) a food safety problem may occur in... - Answer-ingredients, product, processing, storage, and shipment *components to hazard analysis:* - Answer-- Biological (major emphasis) - Chemical - Physical we must prove that the product is _________ (critical control point - monitoring and verification) - Answer-*safe* HACCP is Applicable from... - Answer-*farm-to-fork* In 1862, Abraham Lincoln founded... - Answer-United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) USDA is responsible for... - Answer-the safety of meat, poultry, and egg products (*Inspection services, Survey of commodities, Research*) The Jungle - Answer--Published in *1906* -Written to expose the appalling working conditions in the *Chicago Meat Packing Industry* -*Mr. Sinclair's* descriptions of diseased, rotten, contaminated meat and gross insanitary conditions shocked the public in 1906, Congress passed... - Answer-Meat Inspection Act and Food & Drug Act Meat Inspection Act - Answer-- requires that there be federal inspection at production plants - Administered by *FSIS*: Food Safety Inspection Services of USDA - Domestic market *meats*, later expanded to include *poultry* and *egg* products (not shelled eggs)