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Exam 2
Food Safety & Risk Perception
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Veterinary Medicine
Professional
03/24/2016

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Term
<___% of US population is involved in agriculture.
Definition
-less than 2%
Term
Large, single-product operations are called ______.
Definition
-Factory farms
Term
What are some of the concerns for food safety?
Definition
-E. coli, Salmonella, Campylobacter, and others
-hormones in meat and rBST milk
-genetically modified foods
-antibiotics
-hormones
-pesticides
-imports
-commercial food processing: pink slime
Term
What are some of the characteristics of modern food system?
Definition
-centralization, larger scale, more value-added products, new packaging, changes in eating habits & food prep behaviors, globalization of the food supply
Term
What are some of the factors impacting people's perception of risk?
Definition
-trust: less ofr corporate
-risk vs benefit
-control
-imposed vs voluntary
-natural vs result of human activity
-dread
-catastrophic vs chronic
-uncertainty
-personal risk
-familiar vs new
-old vs young
-personification
-fairness/equity
Term
Veterinarians have two general roles in food safety. What are they?
Definition
-assist in production of safe, wholesome food
-inform consumers of their responsibility in food safety
Term
Is the actual or reported incidence of foodborne disease higher? Estimate it.
Definition
-actual > reported
-approx 3000 deaths per year
Term
What is the most common foodborne disease agent? What about the second?
Definition
-Norovirus
-Salmonella
Term
What are the two major types of foodborne illness? Define them.
Definition
-Intoxication: ingestion of a toxin previously formed in food
-Infection: ingestion of a food containing a pathogenic organism which invades, grows, and produces tissue damage
Term
Does intoxication or infection have a short incubation period?
Definition
-intoxication have short or very rapid incubation periods
-infections tend to have longer incubation periods
Term
What are the common agents responsible for foodborne intoxication?
Definition
-Clostridium botulinum
-Staphyloccus aureus
Term
What are the common agents responsible for foodborne infection?
Definition
-Campylobacter jejuni
-Salmonella
-E. coli
Term
Most diarrheal diseases have an incubation period of __-__ hours.
Definition
-18-36 hours
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