Food Safety

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Diphullobothrium, what is it and its life cycle?

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Goes through the food chain and they mature into tapeworms that hang in the intestine wall

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Taenia, what is it and its lifecycle?

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Beef tapeworm, starts out in feces of humans then goes to cows and back to humans

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Cysticercosis

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The cause of seizure, the tapeworm infects brain, muscles, and other tissues

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Taeniasis

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Tapeworm that infects stomach and causes host to lose weight

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Fasciola hepatica

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a type of fluke that causes anaemia because the fluke interferes with liver metabolism, thus reducing iron availability. starts in snails to vegetation to humans to poop to water

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Anisakis

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Nematode. You can either have an allergic reaction or get infected. Mammals release feces in water and gets eaten by crustaceans, eaten by fish, fish dies, then they get eaten

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Eustrongylides

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Roundworm. Bright red, found in salt water. fish eaten by birds, birds poop back into water

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Ascaris lumbricoides

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Giant roundworm. Most common worm. Once infected they go to lungs and get coughed up and swallowed again.

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Trichinella

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Roundworm, nematoda. From raw pork, damages nervous system, heart, muscle inflammation

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Trichuris trichiura

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Whipworm. Only tropical regions, contaminated water and soil

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Protozoans

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Eukaryota, in between plants and animals. Live in a variety of of environments

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Entamoeba histolytica

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Protozoan, cysts are ingested and they food on the natural flora in the gut. Causes dysentery

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Cryptosporidium

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Protozoan. Causes diarrhoea. Cysts are consumed, spores live in GI tract, spores reproduce asexually

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Giardia

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Protozoan that infects small intestines. Makes bad egg smell. Asexually reproduce in intestines, cytes from in colon, released into water

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Sacrocystis

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Infection that looks like bladder. From pork and beef. Causes anorexia

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Toxoplasma gondii

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Causes acute muscle pain

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BSE

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Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy. Emerged in 1986

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CWD

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Chronic wasting disease. TSE only found in deer

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FSE

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Feline Spongiform Encephalopathy

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CJD

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Creutzfeld-jacob Disease, caused by prion

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Kuru

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Papua New Guinea. Done by cannibalism

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GSSS

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Gerstmann-Stausser-Scheinker Syndrome

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nvCJD

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New variant Creutsfeldt jacob disease.

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BSE in the US

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12/23/2003

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Pestidicides, when was it found

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Discovered 1939

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4 types of chemical pesticides

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Organophosphates: neurological effect irreversible

carbamate: neurological effect reversible organochlorine: wave of depolarization in nerve cells

pyrethroid insecticides: interfere with nerve pulse generation

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FIFRA

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Federal insecticide, fungicide, rodenticide act

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FFDCA

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federal food, drug, and cosmetic act

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Food Quality Protection Act of 1996

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Protects children from pesticides

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DDT

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Main pesticide, discovered in 1939

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NOEL

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No observable effect level

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ADI

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Accepable Daily Intake

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EPA

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Sets limits and tolerances of pesticides

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Intake vs uptake

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Intake: how much is taken in

Uptake: how much is absorbed

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Median Lethal Dose

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The lethal dose of a toxin that is required to kill half the members of a an exposed population

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Curcurbitacins

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Made by cucumbers and stress, they taste bitter

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Dioxin

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heavy metal toxin that is carcinogenic

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Glycoalkoloids

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found in potatoes, mild upset stomach, heat resistant

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Furocoumarins

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Carrots, parsnips, parsley, cilantro. photoactive carcinogens

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Kidney beans

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Phasin, causes blood clotting

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Mushroom toxin

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Phenylhrdrazine

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HACCP

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Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point

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HARPC

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Hazard Analysis and Risk-based Preventive Control

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Red tide

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Is an algae bloom formed mostly by dinoflagellates. Paralytic shellfish poisoning is when the shellfish in the area eat these and we consume them

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Ciguatoxin

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found in fish, neurotoxin

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Fugu fish

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Tetrodotoxin, paralysis