Certified Food Safety Professional Exam
2026 Questions and Answers
Hazard - Correct answer-biological, chemical, or physical properties that may
cause an unacceptable consumer risk
Contaminants - Correct answer-An impurity (not necessarily making food unsafe
but should not be in food; not defined by food code)
Risk - Correct answer-Likelihood that an adverse health effect will occur within a
population as a result of a hazard (food code definition)
Foodborne disease or Foodborne illness (FBI) - Correct answer-Illness or disease
carried or transmitted to people by food
Foodborne disease outbreak - Correct answer-Occurrence of 2 or more cases of
similar illness resulting from ingestion of a common food (food code definition)
Foodborne Outbreak (3 conditions met) - Correct answer-- 2 or more people
(exception C.botulinum)
- Same food
©COPYRIGHT 2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 1
, - Same illness
Confirmed disease outbreak - Correct answer-Lab analysis identifies causative
agent and epidemiological data implicates a good as the source of illness
How causative agent identified - Correct answer-Sample taken from a patient to
identify (typically stool, sometimes blood)
Is it required to identify causative agent from food source? - Correct answer-May
be able to identify but not required. Food may no longer be available for sampling
after outbreak is discovered
Hold or detention - Correct answer-Facility retains product but cannot do anything
with it until it is released
Conditions (3) of a product hold - Correct answer-- product should be designated
as such and separated from saleable product
- hold sometimes used generically to refer to any type of hold order
- typically originate from something a regulator finds during a regulatory visit
(inspection)
Types of holds - Correct answer-- embargo
- condemnation
©COPYRIGHT 2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 2
2026 Questions and Answers
Hazard - Correct answer-biological, chemical, or physical properties that may
cause an unacceptable consumer risk
Contaminants - Correct answer-An impurity (not necessarily making food unsafe
but should not be in food; not defined by food code)
Risk - Correct answer-Likelihood that an adverse health effect will occur within a
population as a result of a hazard (food code definition)
Foodborne disease or Foodborne illness (FBI) - Correct answer-Illness or disease
carried or transmitted to people by food
Foodborne disease outbreak - Correct answer-Occurrence of 2 or more cases of
similar illness resulting from ingestion of a common food (food code definition)
Foodborne Outbreak (3 conditions met) - Correct answer-- 2 or more people
(exception C.botulinum)
- Same food
©COPYRIGHT 2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 1
, - Same illness
Confirmed disease outbreak - Correct answer-Lab analysis identifies causative
agent and epidemiological data implicates a good as the source of illness
How causative agent identified - Correct answer-Sample taken from a patient to
identify (typically stool, sometimes blood)
Is it required to identify causative agent from food source? - Correct answer-May
be able to identify but not required. Food may no longer be available for sampling
after outbreak is discovered
Hold or detention - Correct answer-Facility retains product but cannot do anything
with it until it is released
Conditions (3) of a product hold - Correct answer-- product should be designated
as such and separated from saleable product
- hold sometimes used generically to refer to any type of hold order
- typically originate from something a regulator finds during a regulatory visit
(inspection)
Types of holds - Correct answer-- embargo
- condemnation
©COPYRIGHT 2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 2
