Food
Micro Practice Test
April 2004
2. What is the difference between food poisoning and food borne disease?
3. Why do some bacteria need a large inoculum to cause disease and others can do it with just a few cells?
4. Identify three food borne infections that can cause disease with
a. a small inoculum
b. Need a large inoculum
c. Virus
d. Protozoa
5. Give an two example each of food poisoning caused by
a. Bacteria
b. Fungi
c. Algae
6. Give two example of bacteria that can grow in food in the refrigerator
7. How can this be controlled
8. What is the danger Zone
9. How long can food be kept inn the danger zone
10. What would be the most likely food borne disease in
a. Bacon
b. Roast beef reheated
c. Rice salad
11. What are five diseases that could be transmitted in unpasturised milk
12. Why is canned food with a pH of more than 4.5 given a 12"d" cook
13. What is the "d" value in heat sterilisation
14. Why do we call food processing commercial sterilisation?
15. What is the difference between:
a. HTST
16. What are five bacteriostatic methods of controlling microbes in food?
17. How can you stop viruses getting into food
18. What is cross contamination?
19. Why only a few strains of E. coli produce toxins and most do not
20. Whys are some food borne disease in mothers bad for unborn babies ?
Give two examples
21. Why can botulinum produce a intestinal infection in babies but not adults
22. Why are
vulnerable groups vulnerable? Who are they?