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What does HACCP stand for?
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Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point
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What is the HACCP?
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A food safety system that focuses on identifying and preventing hazards that could cause food-borne illness.
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What is the National Food Safety Initiative?
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A program aimed at reducing the incidence of food-borne illnesses by improving food safety practices and policies throughout the US.
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What did Louis Pasteur do?
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He found that by heating liquids, bottled liquids would not spoil. It was most famous with milk.
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A maximum of ______ bacteria per millimeter is allowed in grade A milk.
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20,000.
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What does USDA stand for?
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U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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What does the USDA label mean?
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The food is organic.
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What does the USDA do?
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Monitor pesticide levels in food.
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What is cross-contamination?
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The transfer of contaminants from one food to another.
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What is salmonella?
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A bacteria found in raw eggs or undercooked foods.
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What is the temperature danger zone?
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The temperature danger zone includes the temperatures between 45 and 140 degrees Fahrenheit.If left in this zone for too long, found can grow bacteria fast.
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What is E. Coli?
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A bacterium in the intestinal tracts. Food becomes contaminated through fecal contamination.
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What is Clostridum Perfringens?
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A bacteria that may cause illness both by infection and contamination. It is found in soil and the intestines of animals.
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Why is Clostridium Perfingens hard to kill?
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Because they form heat resistant spores that remain dormant until environmental conditions favor growth.
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What is Clostridium Perfringens often called?
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"Cafeteria Germs" because foods stored in large containers, such as those in cafeterias, have anerobic centers that provide excellent growth.
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What is Clostridum Botlinum called?
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It produces the deadliest bacterial food toxin.
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The most common form of botulism is _______ ___________.
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Infant Botulism.
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Why do only infants get botulism from ingesting spores?
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Because in adults, competing intestinal microflora prevent spores form germinating.
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What is Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy?
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A fatal neurological disease, also know as Mad Cow Disease, that affects the cattle and may and may be transmitted to humans by consuming beef by-products.
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EPA
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Environmental Protection Agency
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What is the EPA?
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US government agency responsible for determining acceptable levels of environmental contaminants in food supply and for establishing water quality standards.
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What is a pesticide?
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A substance used to prevent or decrease damage to plants from insects and microorganisms.
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What is malnutrition?
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Any condition resulting in from an energy or nutrient intake either above or below what is optimal.
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What is obesity?
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A condition characterized by excess body fat, It is defined as a body mass index of 30 kg/m^2 or greater, or a body weight that is 20% or more above the desirable body weight standard.
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What is infant mortality rate?
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The number of deaths during the first year of life per 1000 live births.
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What is stunting?
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A decrease in linear growth rate, which is an indicator of the nutritional well-being in populations of children.
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What is famine?
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A widespread lack of access to food due to a disaster that causes a collapse in the food production and marketing systems.
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What is a food shortage?
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Insufficient food to feed a population.
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What is food insecurity?
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An inability to to consistently acquire foods that are nutritionally adequate and individually, socially, and culturally acceptable.
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What are renewable resources?
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Resources that are restored and replaced by natural processes and that can therefore be used forever.
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What is Kwashiokor?
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A form of protein-energy malnutrition in which only protein is deficient. It is most common in children who are unable to meet their high protein needs with the available diet.
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What is Marasmus?
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A form of protein-energy malnutrition in which a deficiency of energy in the diet causes severe body wasting.
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What is Goiter?
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An enlargement of the thyroid gland caused by a deficiency of iodine.
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What are Cash Crops?
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Crops grown for monetary value rather than to be used for food locally.
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FAO
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Food and Agricultural Organization
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What does the FAO do?
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A program that works to improve that production, intake, and distribution of food worldwide.
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WHO
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World Health Organization
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What does the Who do?
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A program that targets community health centers and emphasizes the prevention of nutrition problems, such as micro nutrient deficiencies.
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What is Blood Pressure?
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The amount of force exerted by the blood against the artery walls.
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What is hypertension?
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Blood pressure that is consistently elevated to 140/90 mm of mercury or greater.
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DASH Diet.
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A dietary pattern that is plentiful in fruits and vegetables and low fat dairy products and therefore high in potassium, magnesium, calcium, and fiber, and low in saturated fat and cholesterol.
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Where is Sulfur found?
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High protein foods and preservatives.
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What is calcium's role in controlling blood pressure?
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By controlling that contraction of muscles in the blood vessel walls and signaling the secretion of substances that regulate blood pressure.
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Where is calcium found?
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Dairy products, fish consumed with bones, leafy green vegetables, fortified foods.
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What is Colic?
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Colic involves daily periods of consolable crying that cannot be stopped by holding, feeding, or changing that infant.
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