BQA Sample Questions

According to U.S. consumers surveyed in the 2008 Consumer Confidence Survey, Livestock producers should be held responsible for?

• The price of meat products

• Proper and humane treatment of animals

• Food safety

• BOTH proper and humane treatment of animals and food safety

• None of these

The objective of Beef Quality Assurance is:

• Improve consumer confidence in beef

• Use best management practices to prevent safety and quality problems

• User proper animal handling and care practices

• All of these

In the Beef Industry, which of the following are potential “Food Safety” issues?

• Contamination of beef with bacteria and other organisms that can cause illness

• Contamination with chemicals

• Physical contamination

• All of these

• None of the these

Feed Medications: residues from feed medications are a potential hazard. Which of the following are potential ways that a problem could be introduced?

• Overdosing

• Misapplication

• Improper mixing

• All of these

• None of these

In the feed mill, what items are used to verify that feed medications are used correctly?

• All of these

• Employees signatures on reports

• Daily records of inventory and usage

• Calibration reports for scales, mixers and micro-machines

• Daily batching/mixing reports

Implants/reimplants – Which of the following can affect performance and carcass value?

• Abscessed implants

• Crushed implants

• Improperly placed implants

• Time intervals between implanting and reimplanting

• All of these.

Injections – An injection site lesion...

• Scar tissue resulting from irritation at the injection site

• Results in product loss if located in a muscle

• Reduces tenderness of meat surrounding the lesion

• Results in customer dissatisfaction

• All of these

Injections – Steps to prevent injection site lesions and product loss include...

• Placing all injections in front of the shoulder

• Using subcutaneous route of administration when possible

• Using clean, undamaged needles

• Following labeled directions for amounts administered per injection site

• All of these

Pharmaceuticals/Biologicals – For a vaccine to be most effective it must be...

• Kept out of direct sunlight and ultraviolet light

• Kept cool at all times

• Administered in a clean injection site

• All of these

Steps to prevent broken needles in beef are:

• Change needles frequently

• Do not straighten bent needles

• Restrain animals properly to reduce movement and change of breaking needle

• All of these