Food Safety and Nutrition: Chapter 5-9

What must you do immediately after thawing food in a microwave?

Cook it.

What is the problem with storing raw ground beef above prepped salads?

Cross-contamination

What is the first step in cooling a 10 pound roast quickly and correctly?

Cut it into smaller pieces

Which thermocouple probe should be used to check the temperature of a large stockpot of soup?

Immersion probe

Which food item can be safely re-served at a food service operation?

Individually packaged breadsticks

When transporting food off-site, how should information such as a use-by date and time be communicated to the off-site staff?

Labels on food

What food container is suitable for transporting food?

Metal pan with aluminum foil cover

That type of eggs must be used when preparing raw or undercooked dishes for high-risk populations?

Pasteurized

Which of the following is an improper method for cooling a large pot of chili?

Place the pot of hot chili into a refrigerator

Which of the following is not a proper way to cool hot food?

Placing it directly into a refrigerator

During what phase in a foodservice operation does food safety control begin?

Purchasing

A local nursing home has a yearly barbecue for its residents. Which food item should not be served?

Rare hamburgers

When storing TCS, ready-to-eat food that was prepared on site, what information must be on the label?

Sell by or discard date

What is the danger when thawing food at room temperature?

Time-temperature abuse

What device can be used to record time-temperature abuse during the delivery of food?

Time-temperature indicator

Which part of the plate should a food handler avoid touching when serving customers?

Top

When can glass thermometers be used?

When enclosed in a shatterproof casing

Ice should be handled using

a scoop.

Chemicals should be stored

away from food.

What item must customer take each time they return to a self-service area for more food?

clean plate

Dead shellfish or shellstock with badly broken shells must be separated and then

discarded

Coffee cups should be handled by the

handle.

Which type of thermometer can read temperatures without touching the item's surface?

infrared

When returning to self-service lines for more food, customer should not _______ their dirty plates.

refill

Containers of raw shucked shellfish bigger than one-half gallon must have the name and address of the packer, the certification number and a

shellstock identification tag.

Food should be stored at least ____ inch(es) off the floor.

six

Infrared thermometers should be used to measure the

surface temperature of a grill

A thermometer used to measure the temperature of food must be accurate to what temperature?

+/-2°F

Serving utensils should be used to serve a maximum of _____ food item(s) at a time.

1

A food handler is reheated commercially processed cheese sticks, which will be hot-held on a buffet. What temperature must the cheese sticks be reheated to?

135°F

At what minimum temperature should hot TCS food be held?

135°F

Hot beef and vegetable soup should be held at

135°F or higher.

What is the minimum internal cooking temperature for eggs that will be hot-held for service?

155°F

What is the minimum internal cooking temperature for egg, meat, poultry, and seafood cooked in a microwave?

165°F

What is the minimum internal cooking temperature for stuffed pork chops?

165°F

Ready-to-eat TCS food must be date marked if it will be stored for longer than

24 hours.

When a thermometer is calibrated using the ice-point method, it should be adjusted to ______ after the stem or probe has been placed the ice wate.

32°F

An operation is located in a jurisdiction that allows it to hold TCS food without temperature control. How many hours can it display hot TCS food without temperature control before the food must be sold, served, or thrown out?

4

What is the maximum acceptable receiving temperature for fresh beef?

41°F

What is the warmest acceptable receiving temperature for eggs?

45°F

At what temperature should dry-storage rooms be kept?

50°F-70°F

An operation that has prepped tuna salad can store it at 41°F or lower for a maximum of how many days?

7

What is the maximum water temperature allowed when thawing food under running water?

70°F

An operation has a small salad bar with 8 different items on it. How many serving utensils are needed to serve the items on the salad bar?

8

What item should be rejected?

Bags of organic cookies in torn packaging