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Food Safety Quiz

1) What foods should vulnerable groups such as pregnant women, the elderly and sick avoid in order to reduce the risk of food poisoning?

	Cakes made with eggs
	Foods made with raw eggs such as mayonnaise, mousse etc
	Fresh juice

2) You’ve only got one chopping board but need to cut up raw meat and prepare your salad. Do you…

	us it for the raw meat, wipe over with a paper towel and then chop up the salad
	use half to chop up the salad and half for the raw meat
	wash it thoroughly between chopping raw and cooked foods.

3) You’ve arrived at a party with fresh cream cakes but no one wants to eat just yet. Do you?

	unwrap them anyway and leave them on the table
	put them in the fridge until ready to serve
	leave them in your bag

4) What should you do with leftover cooked food?

	cool for no more than 2 hours and refrigerate
	leave out on a plate and save it for a midnight snack
	put it in the fridge straight away

5) What should you do after defrosting raw meat if you are not going to cook it immediately?

	re-freeze
	refrigerate
	cover and leave on a kitchen table

6) When cooking sausages on a BBQ, how do know they are cooked?

	the skins start going brown
	they smell cooked
	there are no pink bits inside

7) Can you put cooked burgers back on the plate used to carry the raw meat?

	yes – no problem – it’s the same meat
	no – you will contaminate the cooked meat with the bacteria from the raw
	yes – but only if you wipe it with a paper towel

8) What temperature should your fridge be kept at?

	0 – 5 deg Centigrade
	minus 5 to 0 deg Centigrade
	5 – 8 deg Centigrade

9) Where should raw meat be kept in the fridge?

	in the side compartment
	on the top shelf
	on the bottom shelf

10) You’re preparing a casserole in the morning for serving that evening. Do you…

	leave it simmering all day on the cooker at a low temperature
	cool it, refrigerate it and then heat it until piping hot throughout when ready to serve
	turn off the heat and leave the casserole in the pan until ready to serve.