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Text-Only Version. You can take the interactive assessment here. For a copy of the answers to this assessment, contact our office.

FoodBorne Illness & Security Assessment

This short test (8 questions) will gauge the knowledge that you've acquired in our module, and hopefully help you retain it!

Question 1: Which three ideas are important for you to do to help your area prepare for events of this kind?

1. Knowing how to contact the foodborne investigators in your area.
2. Monitoring surveillance data in your area to notice unusual trends.
3. Ability to identify and treat specific illnesses.
4. Assessing your area for foodborne risks and partners.
5. Making sure you are the first person on scene to investigate a foodborne illness.

Question 2: Place the components of the food risk assessment in the correct order.

Components:

• Rank Risks
• Suggest Solutions
• Identify Hazards
• Contact Locations

Steps:

• Find the Needs
• Blank One:______________
• Blank Two:______________
• Blank Three:______________
• Blank Four:______________
• Use it

Note: The step that reads "Contact Locations" includes contacting the agencies that might regulate those locations. The word agencies was left off for space reasons, but it's very important to contact those agencies!

Question 3: Which of the following does not warrant further investigation by a foodborne epidemiologist?

• Ten people are hospitalized after consuming tainted roast beef after a church supper.
• A man is hospitalized with paralysis after ingesting shellfish.
• Two women complain of nausea and diarrhea after a chicken dinner. One is hospitalized.
• Three women experience flu-like symptoms after working together in an office.
• A man dies with symptoms that are similar to those encountered with botulin toxin.

Question 4: In the Dalles case study, which of the following was NOT given as a reason why the initial investigation rejected bioterrorism as a cause for the outbreak?

• No one claimed responsibility.
• There were repeated contaminations over several weeks.
• It had never happened.
• The type of salmonella found was different in each location.
• Some employees had the illness before their customers.

Question 5: According to the CDC document "Threat of a biological terrorist attack on the US food supply", a terrorist attack on the US food supply could resemble an unintentional foodborne outbreak..

A. True

B. False

Question 6: Move each step in the food journey to its correct position. When you're planning, don't forget about transportation.

Steps:

• Processor
• Sales
• Preparation
• Farm

Positions:

• First________________
• Second_____________
• Third_______________
• Fourth______________
• Consumption

Question 7: What agent, ordered from a standard commercial laboratory, was used to contaminate salad bars in The Dalles and cause 750 illnesses?

Answer:

Question 8: Which of these food are most likely to be contaminated by Salmonella? Hint: There are three.

• Prime Rib
• Vichyssoise
• Spring Green Salad
• Steamed Broccoli
• Tiramisu