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56 Cards in this Set
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What agency has a statutory role in food safety? |
FSAI |
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Food surveillance has not lead to improvements in which pathogen? |
E. coli 0157 |
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What is the greatest biological hazard in Ireland? |
Campylobacter |
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What biological hazard peaks in winter? |
norovirus |
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What biological hazard peaks in summer? |
Cryptosporidiosis |
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What is food-related intoxication is associated with? |
infant botulism |
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What bacteria is not linked with zoonotic transmission? |
Shigella |
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What restriction enzyme is used to sub-type E. coli and Salmonella bacterial isolates? |
Xba1 |
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What pathogens cause HUS? |
VTEC |
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What is the primary objective of a regulatory food safety audit? |
verify compliance with law |
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What is microbiological monitoring used for in HACCP? |
verify effectiveness |
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What is not detected in ante-mortem inspection of beef? |
E. coli O157 |
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What is a food safety audit for? |
verify compliance |
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What zoonoses can be transmitted vertically from hens to eggs and hatched chicks? |
Salmonella Enteritidis |
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What is the objective of pre-harvest food management in animal production? |
prevent or reduce risk of introducing food-borne hazards |
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What is incorrect about Cryptosporidium parvumcan? |
Affects humans and animals |
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What 2 species of Listeria are usually considered pathogenic? |
monocytogenes and ivanovii |
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/what is the UTL for L. monocytogenes in RTE foods? |
100 CFU/g |
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What key regulatory signal facilitates adaption of Salmonella to changing environmental stresses? |
rpoS |
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What is the infectious dose for S. typhimurium in chocolate? |
10 CFU |
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What does infectious dose of Salmonella depend on? |
nature of Salmonella serovar |
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What bacteria is aw not important for? |
Cronobacter sakazakii |
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What testing method is used to recover Salmonella? |
ISO 6579:2002 |
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What is the non-pathogenic species of Yersinia? |
Yersinia bercovieri |
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What biotype of Yersinia is seen in environment? |
1A |
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What bio-serotypes of Y. enterocolitica is most pathogenic? |
1B/O:4 |
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What is the virulence marker of Y. enterocolitica is expressed at 25*C? |
inv |
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What selective agar is used to recover Yersinia? |
CIN |
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What general bacterial characteristic doesn't apply to Cronobacter? |
susceptible to dessication |
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What biochemical marker is used to distinguish between Cronobacter and E. cloacae complex? |
alpha-glucosidse |
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What pathogen can grow at aw<0.85? |
Staphylococcus aureus |
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What are the requirements for bacterial survival under low moisture conditions? |
Refrigeration temp |
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How low are the levels of Salmonella detected in peanut butter? |
3 cells/g |
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What class of antimicrobial compound don't exert their effects on DNA? |
Glycopeptides |
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What chemical modification mechanism is linked to aminoglycoside resistance? |
acetylation of drug |
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What feature is not seen in SDR efflux pumps? |
Low level MIC |
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What efflux pump is associated with Campylobacter jejuni? |
CmeABC
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What AST method does not provide MIC value? |
Disc diffusion |
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What organisation provides veterinary specific interpretation criteriae? |
CLSI |
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What gene combination is expected to present in a resistant bacterium based on the phenotype AmpCTe? |
bla-TEM-catA1-tet(A) |
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What cluster of genes maps ACSSuT? |
SGI1 |
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What is a non-biocide? |
penicillin |
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What does not apply to biocides? |
always selectively toxic |
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What is a QAC biocide? |
Benzalkonium chloride |
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What chemical occurs naturally in soil? |
heavy metals |
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What regulation lays down the general principles and requirements of food law? |
Regulation EC No 178/2002 |
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What legal body is responsible for risk assessment in the EU? |
EFSA |
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What is not a role of the FSAI? |
produce food policy and legislation |
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What contaminant lead to recall of irish pork? |
dioxin |
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What pyschrotriphiles are a risk to cold chain preservation? |
Listeria |
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What viral family is not linked to food safety? |
Reterovirea |
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What bacteria is associated with the antigenic formula 1, 4 (5) 12i? |
Salmonella thp |
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What bacteria is used in the delvo test? |
Bacillus stearothermophilus |
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What public body is collaborating and publishing info of food borne illness? |
HPSC |
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What biological hazard is most susceptible to biocides? |
Microplamids |
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What group of pathogens cause HUS? |
STEC/VTEC/EHEC |
