Food Safety Test

What comes to mind when you think of a clean kitchen?

Shiny waxed floors? Gleaming stainless steel sinks? Spotless counters and neatly arranged cupboards?

In the home, food safety concerns revolve around three main functions: food storage, food handling, and cooking. To see how well you're doing in each, take this quiz, and then read on to learn how you can make the meals and snacks from your kitchen the safest possible.

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1. The temperature of the refrigerator in my home is:

50 Degrees Fahrenheit (10 degrees Celsius)
40 F ( 5 C )
I don't Know; I've never measured it.

2. The last time we had leftover cooked stew or other food with meat, chicken or fish, the food was:

Cooled to room temperature, then put in the refrigerator
Put in the refriderator immediately after the food was served
Left at room temperature overnight or longer

3. The last time the kitchen sink drain, disposal and connecting pipe in my home were sanitized was:

Last night
Several weeks ago
Can't remember

4. If a cutting board is used in my home to cut raw meat, poultry or fish and it is going to be used to chop another food, the board is:

Reused as is
Wiped with a damp cloth
Washed with soap and hot water
Washed with soap and hot water and then sanitized

5. The last time we had hamburgers in my home, I ate mine:

Rare (140 F)
Medium (160 F)
Well-done (170 F)

6. The last time there was cookie dough in my home, the dough was:

Made with raw eggs, and I sampled some of it
Made with raw eggs and refrigerated, then I sampled some of it
Store-bought, and I sampled som of it
Not sampled until baked.

7. I clean my kitchen counters and other surfaces that come in contact with food with:

Water
Hot water and soap
Hot water and soap, then bleach solution
Hot water and soap, then commercial sanitizing agent

8. When dishes are washed in my home, they are:

Washed and dried in an automatic dishwasher
Left to soak in the sink for several hours and then washed with soap in the same water
Washed righ away with hot water and soap in the sink and then air-dried
Washed right away with hot water and soap in the sink and immediately towel-dried

9. The last time I handled raw meat, poultry or fish, I cleaned my hands afterwards by:

Wiping them on a towel
Rinsing them under hot, cold or warm tap water
Washing with soap and warm water


10. Meat, poultry and fish products are defrosted in my home by:

Setting them on the counter
Placing them in the refrigerator
Microwaving


11. When I buy fresh seafood, I:

Buy only fish that's refrigerated or well iced
Take it home immediately and put in the refrigerator
Sometimes buy it straight out of a local fisher's creel


12. I realize people, including myself, should be especially careful about not eating raw seafood, if they have:

Diabetes
HIV infection
Cancer
Liver diseas