Health and Safety & Food Safety Quiz

Which symbol represents 'Environmental Hazard'?

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Food poisoning bacteria need the 4 following right conditions to grow and multiply. They are

• air

  water

  food

  cold temperature

• food

  warm temperature

  time

  moisture

• time

  hot temperature

  moisture

  water

• water

  food

  space

  time

Listeria, Campylobacter, E-Coli, Salmonella are all types of

• diseases

• food poisoning pathogenic bacteria

• viruses

• foods

Cross-contamination is when (3 possible answers)

• eating raw food

• handling raw meat then handling cooked meat without washing hands

• food poisoning bacteria is transferred directly or indirectly from one place onto food

• food poisoning bacteria is present in food and is cooked to a high temperature

• using a knife to fillet a fish and cutting some bread with the same knife having only been wiped with a dirty dishcloth

The optimum temperatures for which bacteria to grow in are:

• -5 and -18 degrees Celcius

• 0 and 5 degrees Celcius

• 18 and 75 degrees Celcius

• 5 and 63 degrees Celcius

Food poisoning bacteria prefer foods that are generally high in protein, have been cooked (and left for a while) or that contain moisture, or have not been washed properly.

Which of the foods below either contain moisture, or are high in protein, may not have been prepared properly- (therefore known as 'high-risk' foods)?

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Select situations when a food handler must always wash their hands

• After handling rubbish

• Before preparing food

• After sneezing, coughing or blowing nose

• After going to the toilet

• After preparing raw foods (such as meat, fish, eggs)

An Environmental Health Officer 's role is

• to open new food businesses

• to work in conservation and protect wildlife

• to protect public health by ensuring that any food business correctly follows food safety legislation

• to sell food to the public

An Environmental Health Officer can, by law, do the following

• Take photos as evidence of what they find during an inspection

• Deliver food to the business

• Take food samples away from business for testing in a lab for food poisoning bacteria

• Sell the business

• enter the premises without an appointment

An Environmental Health Officer has to make sure that food handlers are correctly trained in food hygiene and safety

• True

• False

Answer explanation

True