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| -all coniditions and measures that are necessary during the production, processing, storage, distribution, and preparation of foods to ensure that it is safe, sound, wholesome, and fit for human consumption |
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| What are the levels of food safety pertaining to production? |
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-Quality Assurance/ quality control programs
-milk & dairy beef residue prevention
-pork quality assurance levels I, II, & III
-beef quality assurance |
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| What are the general categories of animal handling for on-farm QA/QC? |
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-feed
-treatment and records
-husbandry |
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| What are the categories of milk and eggs handling for on-farm QA/QC? |
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-feed
-treatment and records
-husbandry
-product collection: milkers and milking equipment
-storage
-transportation |
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| Is on-farm QA/QC legally binding? |
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| What agencies protect intrastate produced and sold products? What are the general guidelines? |
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-state agencies
-the state have to follow fed rules or higher but this does not apply to most products |
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| Who regulates products that are interstate produced and sold products? |
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| Does the CDC have any regulatory responzibilities? |
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| -no, jsut advisory, investigative, and supprotive |
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| What are the responsibilities of CFSAN under FDA? |
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-regulate about 80% of food supply
-all doestic and imported food except meat and poultry, frozen/dry/liquid eggs, and alcohol |
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| Who regulates meat and poultry? |
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| Who regulates frozen/dry/liquid eggs? |
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| Under the USDA, what is Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) responsible for? |
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-all meat destined for interstate commerce
-pre-packaged foods contianing significant amounts of meat
-fress eggs and uncooked egg products |
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| Who performs ante-mortem inspection of animals prior to slaughter? |
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| Who regulates restaurants, vendors, etc? |
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| -local and/or state agencies |
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| Who regulates at-home consumption? |
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| What are the objectives of food inspection? |
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-elimination of products unfit for consumption
-ensure that meat, poultry & dairy products are free from contamination & adulteration |
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| -addition of an improper, foreign substance |
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| What first started food hygiene issues? |
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| -economic concerns, not public health |
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| What was the first agency created for food hygiene? |
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-Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI)
-in 1884 |
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| What resulted from Upton Sinclair's publishment of The Jungle? |
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Definition
-it caused an uproar that lead to the Meat Inspection Act in 1906
-provided for ante- and psotmortem examination & established sanitation standards as the fist federal regulation directed toward food safety |
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| What did the Wholesome Meat Act of 1967 do? What were the 2 exemptions? |
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-required all meat offered for sale (including intrastate) be inspected
-Exemptions: custom slaughter for owner or direct retail sale to consumers of meat from inspected carcasses |
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| Compare and contrast meat production now? |
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-Then: largely local system, primarily be hand, slow, threat of filth and grossly unfit animals entering the food supply
-Now: highly centralized, highly mechanized, rapid processing speed, large volume mixing of products |
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| What are the advantages of the modern production sysytem? |
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-much lower risk of diseased animals entering the food supply
-much more organized/integrated inductry-young animals, well fed, disease control, and QA programs
-main risk is microbiological contaminatoin |
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| What are the general shortcomins of an organoleptic process? |
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-no correlation b/n visual and microbiolgical contamination
-reactive rather than proactive
-limited remediation opportunities |
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| What did FSIS do that was significant for food hygiene in 1996? |
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| -mega-reg that applied to all meat and poultry plants instituting HACC and pathogen detection |
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