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Serv Safe Chapter1
Providing Safe Food
Question | Answer |
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Viruses, parasites, fungi and bacteria are this type of the greatest threat to food safety | Biological Hazards |
Foodservice chemicals can contaminate food if they are used incorrectly | Chemical Hazards |
Foreign hazards like hair, dirt, bandages, metal staples, or broken glass can get into food | Physical Hazards |
Food that has stayed too long at temperatures that are good for the growth of pathogens | Time-Temperature abuse |
Pathogens can be transferred from one surface or food to another | Cross-Contamination |
Failing to wash hands after using the bathroom, coming to work sick, coughing or sneezing of food, and touching wounds and touching food | Poor Personal Hygiene |
The number minimum of how many people must experience the same illness after eating the same food | Two |
Populations at High Risk for foodborne illness are elderly, infants and preschool, people with cancer, HIV/Aids, transplant recipients and | pregnant women |
CDC | Center for Disease Control and Prevention |
CDC list most common risk factors of foodborne illness as purchasing foods from unsafe sources, failing to cook food adequately, holding food at incorrect temperatures, using contaminated equipment and | Practicing poor personal hygiene |
Elderly people and infants are a high risk for foodborne illness because | their immune system is weaken |