2.5 Work file

2.5 Food Safety Work File

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. Keep hands clean to avoid any illness

2. Clean all surfaces after cooking or animals sitting on them

Separate (16 points):
1. When cross contamination happens it spreads bacteria from one item to a food item which will make you sick

2. Don’t put cooked foods where raw food was (without washing)

Cook (16 points):
1. Using a food thermometer is the only way to find out if your meal is at the temperature of zero bacteria

2. Cook unfrozen food at a low temperature to kill its bacteria

Chill (16 points):
1. A food at 0 degrees inactivates bacteria

2. Leaving food outside for too long grows bacteria that can ill you

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)

I think we can improve cooking food to the correct temperature so no bacteria stays on it, and cleaning our hands after touching raw foods. I think that we keep cooked foods away from raw foods always, and clean surfaces after having raw foods on it.

In what ways do your school and community practice or promote food safety to contribute to your personal health? (20 points)

Well I think that my community promotes food safety because they always send after several months or once a month a health inspector. And my school or the same reason, because sometimes you see the inspectors come and make sure everything is safe.