Food safety quiz

Wipe your hands with a paper towel or tea towel?
Wash your hands in hot water?
Wash your hands for 10 seconds with soap and warm water?
Wash your hands with soap and warm water for 20 seconds then dry them well for a further 20 seconds.
Not even think to wash your hands?

4. If you wash meat or poultry in running water before you cook it, you will wash away most of the bacteria.

5. After using the chopping board for raw meat and before chopping salad vegetables, should you:

Wipe it with the dishcloth?
Rinse it under the tap?
Scrub it with hot water and detergent ?
Spray it with anti-bacterial cleaner then wipe it clean?
Reuse it as it is?

6. When making a salad should you:

Wash all the ingredients that have dirt on them?
Wash the lettuce but nothing else?
Wash all the vegetables every time?

7. When defrosting a chicken should you:

Leave it on the bench covered with a cloth or plastic wrap?
Defrost it in a watertight container in the fridge?
Use the microwave?
Cook it from frozen?

8. Which of these meats are safe to eat when rare or pink inside?

Mince and sausages
Chicken and turkey.
Pork
Rolled roast
Leg of lamb
Chicken livers

9. How long does it take for bacteria to double their numbers at warm temperatures?

10. What is the best way to store leftovers?

Leave them in the dish in the oven till the next day?
Put them into the fridge as soon as the meal is served?
Leave them on the bench to cool then put in the fridge?
Keep them covered on the bench till the next day?

11. When reheating or cooking food in the microwave should you:

Follow the times suggested on the pack or in the microwave instruction book and serve immediately?
Stop the microwave several times during cooking to stir the food, and allow it to stand before serving?
Microwave till bubbling and steaming?

12. Does freezing kill bacteria in food?

13. The temperature of your fridge should be:

Between 2°C and 4°C
Between 6°C and 8°C
Over 8°C.

14.You are having a party and there is not enough room to put all the food in the fridge. Which foods would you leave out?

Salad
Cheese dips
Cooked meat
Fruit platter
Sandwiches

15. How should you clean your dishcloth?

Rinse it under the tap
Wash it when it starts to smell
Soak it in bleach every 2 or 3 days
Microwave it for a minute every day.
Wash it in hot water and detergent every few days.

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Food safety quiz Updated: 01 Dec 2008

1. Food poisoning you get at home is usually mild and not dangerous.

2. As long as food looks, smells and tastes okay it is safe to eat.

3. Before preparing food you should:

4. If you wash meat or poultry in running water before you cook it, you will wash away most of the bacteria.

5. After using the chopping board for raw meat and before chopping salad vegetables, should you:

6. When making a salad should you:

7. When defrosting a chicken should you:

8. Which of these meats are safe to eat when rare or pink inside?

9. How long does it take for bacteria to double their numbers at warm temperatures?

10. What is the best way to store leftovers?

11. When reheating or cooking food in the microwave should you:

12. Does freezing kill bacteria in food?

13. The temperature of your fridge should be:

14.You are having a party and there is not enough room to put all the food in the fridge. Which foods would you leave out?

15. How should you clean your dishcloth?

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Food safety quiz Updated: 01 Dec 2008

Food safety quiz

1. Food poisoning you get at home is usually mild and not dangerous.

2. As long as food looks, smells and tastes okay it is safe to eat.

3. Before preparing food you should:

4. If you wash meat or poultry in running water before you cook it, you will wash away most of the bacteria.

5. After using the chopping board for raw meat and before chopping salad vegetables, should you:

6. When making a salad should you:

7. When defrosting a chicken should you:

8. Which of these meats are safe to eat when rare or pink inside?

9. How long does it take for bacteria to double their numbers at warm temperatures?

10. What is the best way to store leftovers?

11. When reheating or cooking food in the microwave should you:

12. Does freezing kill bacteria in food?

13. The temperature of your fridge should be:

14.You are having a party and there is not enough room to put all the food in the fridge. Which foods would you leave out?

15. How should you clean your dishcloth?