Directions: Complete the food safety interactive quiz. Use the information from the interactive quiz to complete the following responses regarding food safety practices.
For each of the following food safety practices, share at least 2 statements from the interactive quiz. Be sure to put these statements in your own words and explain why they are helpful in preventing food borne illness. An example would be: When dining from a buffet, make sure hot food is hot and cold food is cold. Food that is 40 – 140 degrees Fahrenheit has already begun to grow bacteria and pathogens.
Clean (16 points):
1.Keeping your hands clean keep from getting sick
2.Keep surface clean after cooking, or letting something on it.
Separate (16 points):
1.When cross contamination happens it spreads germs from 1 item to a a food item getting u sick.
2.Don’t put cooked food on same item a raw food was on without cleaning it.
Cook (16 points):
1.A food thermometer is the only way you can tell if foods at the right temperature to kill bacteria.
2.Cook thawed food to minimum internal temp to kill germs.
Chill (16 points):
1.When cooked food is left out it can grow bacteria that make u ill.
2.Freezing foods to 0 degrees inactivates bacteria.
In your own kitchen, explain 2 food safety practices you feel your family can improve and 2 food safety practices you feel your family does well. (16 points)
We can improve cooking food to the correct temp, and cleaning our hands after touching raw foods.
In what ways do your school and community practice or promote food safety to contribute to your personal health? (20 points)