FightBac.Org Food Safety Report

FightBac.Org Food Safety Report

FightBac.Org Food Safety Report

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Materials:

• One minute video clip of Alyssa Milano speaking on food safety: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLB0D-S7qeM
• Partnership for Food Safety Education’s website: www.fightbac.org
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention_Food Safety: https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/

Assignment steps:

Step 1: Watch video: Alyssa Milano on Food Safety:

Step 2: Access information related to safe food handling at FightBac.org and the CDC. Although students may browse the entire site, they should focus the majority of their time reading the sections entitled, “Clean,” “Separate,” “Cook,” and “Chill.”

Step 3: Students will research a recent outbreak of foodborne illness in the news and write a written report. Although students may include additional information, the following information is required:

• News source
• Date of news report
• Number of individuals affected
• Food source
• Microorganism causing the illness
• Symptoms of illness
• How could this foodborne illness have been prevented?

Step 4: Within the written report, students should also address these points:

• Define foodborne illness in your own words
• Identify a favorite food that would be classified as a potentially hazardous food
• Give examples of cross-contamination of food
• Provide at least one recommendation from each of the 4 core practices (e.g. prior to cooking, store chicken in refrigerator at 40 F or lower).

At the conclusion of this assignment, students will be able to:

• Describe the scope of foodborne illness in the United States
• Describe four core food handling practices to reduce the risk of foodborne illness
• Identify foods most likely to be associated with foodborne illness

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.