ServSafe Manager Study Questions
Immersion Probe
Checking temp on liquids
General Cleaning Guidelines
Clean dollies, carts, transports, and trays often, store food in container that have been cleaned and sanitized, store dirty linens away from food
WHat is appropriate to do in order to maintian an operation?
Clean the operation on a regular basis Make sure all building systems work and are checked regularly Make sure the building is sound Control Pests Maintain the outside of the building correctly, including patio and parking lots
After which activity must food handlers wash their hands?
Clearing Tables
Never mix __________ or ________
Condiments Ingredients
what is the most important way to prevent a food-borne illness from bacteria?
Control time and Temperature
Best way to control Bacteria
Control time and temperature
What is the problem with storing raw ground turkey above raw ground pork?
Cross-contamination
Whole potatoes were coated with olive oil and salt, baked in-house, and stored in a cooler for several days. What must be included on the label for the baked potatoes?
Date that the food was prepared, when it should be discarded, and the name of the product
Three basic rules to prevent pests
Deny pests access to the operation Deny pests food, water, and shelter Work with a licensed pest control operator (PCO)
What should staff know in order to prevent allergic reactions
Describe dishes, identify ingredients, suggest items, identify the allergen special order, deliver food sepeartly to avoid contamination
Where can you eat, dink, smoke, and chew gum or tobacco
Designated break room areas
Where must you wash hands, and for how long?
Designated handwashing station, wet hands and arms, and scrub for 10 to 15 seconds
What dishwasher supplies may be used in the operation?
Detergents and sanitizers approved by the local regulatory authorities
What are the most common symptoms of a food-borne Illness?
Diarrhea, vomiting, fever, nausea, abdominal cramps, and jaundice
What must ice be made from?
Drinkable water
How do you calibrate a thermometer?
Either put the thermometer stem in boiling water, or ice water, 212F/32F
High-Risk Populations
Elderly people Preschool-age children People with compromised immune systems
What is the method is used to rotate refrigerated, frozen, and dry food during storage?
FIFO (First in First out)
How do contaminants happen
FRom person to person, through sneezing or vomiting onto food or food-contact surfaces, from touhing dirty food-contact surfaces equipment, and then touching food
What are the five most common risk factors that can lead to forborne illness?
Failing to cook food adequately, holding food at incorrect temperatures, using contaminated equipment, practicing poor personal hygiene, and purchasing food from unsafe sources
Surface Probe
Flat Cooking Equipment
What reasons should you reject Frozen Foods?
Fluids or water stains appear in case bottoms or on packaging, there are ice crystals or frozen liquids on the food or the packaging
FAT TOM
Food, Acidity, Temperature, Time, Oxygen, Moisture
What is light measured in?
Foot-candles or Lux
What should be done if there is a suspected foodborne-illness outbreak
Gather information, Notifying authorities, segregating product, documenting information, identifying staff, cooperating with authorizes, reviewing procedures
Propper Work Attire
Hair restraint, clean clothing, apron, and no jewelry
What is the common name of a hand antiseptic
Hand Sanitizer
What is HACCP?
Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point
Guidlines for handwashing
Hot and cold running water soap a way to dry hands Garbage container signage
Where should handwashing stations be placed?
IN restrooms or directly next to to them IN areas used for food prep, service, and dish washing
What does HACCP do?
Identifies significan biological, chemical or physical hazards.
What are the six steps in active managerial control?
Identify risks Monitor Corrective Action Management Oversight Training Re-Evaluation
Four Thermometer Names
Immersion probe, surface probe, penetration probe, air probe
How must glasses be carried?
In a rack or a tray to avoid touching the food contact surfaces
Which thermometer is used to measure surface temperatures?
Infrared thermometer
Responsiblities of local and regulatory authorities
Inspecting Operations, ENforcing regulations, investigating complaints and illnesses, issuing licenses, and permits, approving construction, reviewing and approving HACCP plans.
USDA (US Department of Agriculture)
Inspects meat, poultry, and eggs, and any food that crosses state boundaries or that is involved in more than one state
What is the most important factor in choosing a food supplier?
It has been inspected and complies with local, state, and federal laws
Milk can be received at 45°F(7°C) under what condition?
It is served or used in the operation within two hours.
What must be done with produce before cutting, cooking, or combinging it with other ingridients?
It must be thoroughly washed
A food handler has finished trimming raw chicken on a cuttting board and needs the board to prep vegetables. What must be done to the cutting board?
It must be washed, rinsed, and sanitized
When must you discard tuna salad that was prepped on July 19th?
July 25th
Hand care guidlines
Keep fingernails short, waear gloves if you have any wounds or boils
Which practice can help prevent time-temperature abuse?
Limiting the amount of food that can be removed from a cooler for prepping
Common cost to a resteraunt when there is a foodborne illness to an operation
Loss of customers and sales, loss of reputation, negative media exposure, lowered staff morale, lawsuits and legal fees, staff missing work, increased insurance premiums, staff retraining.
A food handler left a pan of roasted turkey breasts to cool at room temperatuer overnight. In additiion to throwing away the turkey, what is an appropriate corrective action?
Make sure the food handler understands safe cooking practices
What food quality standards should cause rejection?
Mold, an abnormal color, pests, Slimy, sticky, or dry, abnormal or unpleasant odor.
How do you avoid Time-Temperature Abuse
Monitoring, Tools, Recording, Time and Temperature control, Corrective actions
What is the best equipment to choose for your operation?
NSF, which is accredited by the American national standards institute
Symptoms of allergic reaction
Nausea, wheezing or shortness of breath, hives or itchy rashes, swelling of various parts of the body, vomiting and/or diarrhea, abdominal pain, itchy throat
Can you fill freezers completely up with food?
No
Is it acceptable to mix multiple batches of food if they're the same date and box?
No, never mix anything as it can lead to cross contamination. you must keep food in one package separate from another.
Can food returned by a guest be reserved?
No.
Biological contamination releases microorganisms known as what
Pathogens
Which probe should be used to check the temperature of a chicken breast?
Penetration probe
What is the best method of checking the temperature of vacuum-packed meat?
Place the thermometer stem or probe between two packages or product
A thermometer used to measure the temperature of food must be accurate to what temperature?
Plus/minus 2°F
What are emergencies that affect a food operation?
Power outages Unautherized people inside of the operation Broken wate mains Terrorist contamination of water supply
What is the most important way to prevent a food-borne illness from viruses?
Practice good personal Hygiene
What is an important measure to prevent food-borne illness?
Preventing Cross Contamination
How to keep Food safe
Purchase from approved reputable ruppliers, controlling time and temperature, preventing cross-contamination, practicing personal hygiene, cleaning and sanitizing
Most common ways food becomes unsafe
Purchasing food from unsafe sources, failing to cook food correctly, holding food at incorrect temperatures, using contaminated equpimentk, practiing poor personal hygiene
Due to an operations space limits, ready-to-eat and uncooked foods must be stored in the same cooler. How should foods be stored, in top-to-bottom order?
Ready to eat foods seafood Whole cuts of beef and pork Ground meat and groundfish Whole and ground poultry
What areas must an inspection report Review?
Receiving and storage, processing, shipping, cleaning and sanitizing, personal hygiene, staff training, recap program, HACCP program or other food safety system
FDA regulates what
Restaurants and retail food stores, vending operations, schools and day care centers, hospitals and nursing homes
Actions that can contaminate food
Scratching the scalp, running fingers through the hair, wiping or touching the nose, rubbing an ear, touching a pimple or an infected wound/boil wearing and touching a dirty uniform, coughing or sneezing into the hand, spitting in the operation
Parasites are commonly linked with what type of food?
Seafood
What step should be taken if a manager suspects a foodborne illness outbreak?
Set aside the suspected product, and label it with do not use, an do not discard.
How long can cold food be served without temperature control?
Six hours, assuming it was pulled out of conditions 41F or lower.
What could cause a need for a varience?
Smoking food to preserve it, using food additives r adding components such as vinegar to preservee or alter the food, curing food, sprouting seeds or beans, or offering live shellfish from a display tank
Who is the most at risk of contaminating food?
Somebody who lives with somebody that has a contactable illness, such as diarrhea.
What is a ready-to-eat food?
Something that doesn't need cooked, Ex. Sea salt
A food handler has diarrhea and has been diagnosed with an illness from Shigella spp. What should the manager tell this food handler to do?
Stay home until approved to return to work
A prep cook stores a bottle few sanitize on a shelf above a prep table. To prevent t chemical contamination, what should be done differently?
Store the sanitizer bottle away from the prep area.
Milk and dairy products, shell eggs, meat (Beef, pork, and lamb), poultry, fish, shellfish and crustaceans, baked potatoes, heat treated plant food, tofu or other soy protein, sprouts, and sprout seeds, sliced melons, cut tomatoes, cut leafy greens
TCS Foods
What should food hanlders do after prepping food and before using the restroom?
Take off their aprons
What should a manager of a hospital cafeteria do if a cook call in with a headache, nausea, and diarrhea?
Tell the cook to stay away from work and see a doctor. because it's a hospital there's likely people with compromised immune systems and elderly.
TCS
Temperature control for safety
What device must all food storage units have?
Temperature measuring device
Who may attempt to contaminate food
Terrorists or activists, disgruntled current or former staff, vendors, competitors
A cook wore single use gloves while forming raw ground beef into patties. The cook continued to wear them while slicing hamburger buns. What mistake was made?
The cook didn't take his gloves off, wash his hands, and put on new single use gloves beofre slicing hamburger buns.
Store serving utensils in the food with the handle extended above _________________
The rim of the container
Why are preschool-age children at a higher risk for forborne illness?
They have not built up a strong immune system
When can take-home container be reused?
They were designed to be reused They were provided to the guest by the operation They are cleaned and sanitized correctly
Raw Chicken breasts are left out t room temperature on a prep table. What is the risk that could cause a foodborne illnes?
Time Temperature Abuse
What are factors that cause pose challenges to food safety?
Time, Langugae and culture, Literacy and education, pathogens, unapproved supplier, high-risk population,, and staff turnover.
What device can be used to monitor both time and temperature abuse during the shipment or storage of food
Time-Temperature Indicator
What causes large ice crystals to form on frozen food and its packaging?
Time-Temperature abuse
How far must a bimetallic stemmed thermometer be inserted into food to give an accurate reading?
To the dimple in the thermometer stem
How long can hot food be held without temperature control?
Up to four hours and must be held at 135F before removing from temperature control
When reheating food how much time do you have and how long must it stay at the appropriate temperature?
Up to two hours from start to finish, and must hold a temperature of 165F or higher for 15 second
What should food handlers do to prevent food alergens from being transferred to food?
Use clean and sanitized utensils when prepping the order
Guidelines for preventing cross contamination between food
Use separate equipment for raw and ready-to-eat foods. Clean and sanitize before and after tasks, prep raw and ready-to-eat food at different times, buy already prepared food
Air Probe
Use these to check the temperature inside coolers and ovens
Which practice can help prevent cross contamination?
Using color-coded cutting boards
When must you wash your hands
Using the restroom, touching the body or clothing, coughing, sneezing blowing nose, or using a handkercheif or tissue, eating, drinking, smoking, or chewing gum or tobaco, hanlding soiled items, handling raw meat, seafood, or poulty, taking out garbage
Use Seperate ___________ for each food item. You must also clean and sanitize them every ________ hours.
Utensils Four
Dishwashers must be able to measure what?
Water temperature Water Pressure Cleaning and Sanitizing chemical Concentration
When Is it appropriate to hold food without temperature control?
When displaying food for a short time, such as on off-site event, or when electricity is not available to power equipment
Examples of when corrective action is needed
When it is handled by staff who have een restricted or excldued form the operationdue to illness, when it is contaminated by hands or bodily fluids for example, from sneezing
When must you label food?
When it's not in it's original container
How does mot contamination of food happen?
When people cause the contamination
When is it acceptable to eat in an operation?
When sitting in a designated break area
What is a food borne illness outbreak?
When two or more people report the same illness from eating the same food
How must ice be obtained?
With an ice scoop or tongs.q
Once food has become unsafe, can it ever be used again?
Yes, assuming it can be safely reconditioned
What is a varience?
a document issued by your regulatory authority that allows a regulatory requirement to be waived or changed
What is a food safety management system?
a group of practices and procedures intended to prevent foodborne illness
What is active managerial Control?
actively control risk factors for a foodborne illness which is proactive rather than reactive so anticipate risks and plan for them
What does a food label include?
common name of the food, or a statement that clearly and accurately identifies it, date markings
if a resterautkn severs raw or undercooked items they must do what
disclose to the customer that it may increase they're risk of foodborne illness
How much time do you have to let your food cool?
first, cool food from 135F or more to at least 70F within two hours. Next cool it from 70F to 41 or lower in the next four hours.
What could be used to misrepresent the appearance of food?
food additives or color additives, colored over wraps, lights
What is TCS food?
food requiring time and temperature control for safety Ex. Sprouts, beef
PPut tabletop equipment on legs at least _____ inches high
four
What internal temperature must TCS food be stored at?
if cold, 41F or less If hot, 135F or more
When must cold food not being controlled without temperature be thrown out before its allotted time?
if the food exceeds 70F while being served.
Penetration probe
internal temperature of food
Where should food never be stored?
locker rooms or dressing rooms, restrooms or garbage rooms, mechanical rooms, under unshielded sewer lines or leaking water lines, under stairwells, under stairwells
Big Eight Allergens
milk, soy, eggs, wheat, fish, crustacean, peanuts, tree nuts
Best Way to control Viruses
practice correct personal hygiene
Best way to control Fungi
purchase from approved, reputable suppliers
Best way to control Plant toxins
purchase from approved, reputable suppliers
Best way to control mushroom Toxins
purchase from approved, reputable suppliers
Best way to control parasites
purchase from approved, reputable suppliers
Best way to control seafood Toxins
purchase from approved, reputable suppliers
When serving a high-risk population, what must you never serve?
raw seed sprouts, raw or undercooked eggs, meat, or seafood.
Storage order top to bottom
ready to eat seafood whole cuts of beef and pork ground meat and ground fish whole and ground poultry
for what reason should you reject food?
severe dents in can seams, dents in a can body, missing label, swollen or budging ends, holes and visible sings of leaking, rust, signs of pest, not in date
How far off the ground must floor mounted equipment legs be?
six inches
A food handler prepares meals for a child day-care center.What symptoms require this food handler to stay home?
sore throat with a fever
What is potable water?
water that is safe to drink
What is a key drop delivery?
when a foodservice operation receive food afterhours when they are closed for business
To prevent the deliberate contamination of food, a manager should know what?
who is in the facility, monitor the security of products, keep information related to food security on file, and know Where to find safety data sheets in the operation.
When washing hands, what is the minimum time you should scrub with soap?
10 Seconds
What is the cookign requirement for Fruit, vegtables, grains, and legumes
135F (no minimum time)
What is the cooking requirements for seafood, steaks, pork, beef, veal, and lamb
145F for 15 second
What is the cooking requirements for roasts of pork, beef, veal, and lamb
145F for four minutes
What is the cooking requirements for ground meat?
155F for 15 seconds
What is the cooking requirments fro poultry?
165F for 15 seconds
How long can food stay in the temperature danger zone before it must be thrown out?
4 Hours
When using water or refridgeration to thaw food, what temperature should be used?
41F, never let it go above
What is the correct temperature for receiving cold TCS food?
41°F(5°C)
Water and plumbing may come from what sources?
Approved Public water mains Private water sources that are regular test and maintained closed, portable water containers water transport vehicles
What is one possible function of a government agency that is responsible for food safety
Approving a construction project
When must single use gloves be changed
As soon as the gloves become dirty or torn, before beginning a different task after an interruption such as taking a phone call, after an interruption, such as taking ga phone call, after handling raw meat, seafood, or puolty, and before handling ready to eat food, and after four hours of continuous use.
CDC and PHS
Assist the FDA, USDA, along with state and local health departments. They also assist in investigating outbreaks
A.L.E.R.T.
Assure, look, employees, reports, threat
How many inches from the floor should food be stored?
At least 6 inches (15cm)
A food handler will be wearing single use gloves to assemble boxed lunches. When must the food handlers hands be washed?
Before putting on the gloves, and after taking the gloves off
When is TCS food considered time-temperature abused? (Temperature Danger Zone)
Between 41 and 135 Degrees Fahrenheit
At what temperatures do most foodborne pathogens grow most quickly?
Between 70°F and 125°F
A guest had a reversal of hot and cold sensations after eating seafood. What most likely caused the Illness>
Biological Toxins
How must servers hold plates when serving?
By the bottom, edge, midle, or stem.
How must flatware (Silverware) be handled?
By the handle and never the food-contact surfaces