Chapter 1 Projects

Read chapter 1 carefully.

Photocopy or type Review Questions and your answers to Chapter 1. (Do not use the text if you will be placing the manual in a three ring binder for employee training in your facility.)

Answer the Questions from the end of this chapter. Correct answers are located on page 179 of your text. Remember these questions help you review for your final exam.

Complete web interaction activities that follow.

Fax, mail, or Email your projects as an attachment to your instructor for posting. Make sure you keep copies and/or send the projects with companies that can trace your package. (The US Postal Service cannot trace your package adequately.)

Web interaction in locating the current Food Safety Model

Project 1.0. Locate the FDA Food Safety Model on the Internet. View the many different sites .

For project 1.1 Obtain a brochure called The FDA Food Code, HACCP, and Handwashing: Compliance Control - Ensuring Employee Handwashing for use in the chapter on employee hygiene. (Indicate order status on Email w/attachment for Chapter 1 projects)

For project 1.2 Using your own words, define a food model, indicating which branch of government writes food models and the use of a food model. (Email w/attachment for Chapter 1 projects)

For project 1.3 Surf the net and locate President Clinton's and Vice President Gore's Food Safety Initiative. Review all the web links. Which federal agency enforces the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996? Which two major laws are impacted by the FQPA? (Email w/attachment for Chapter 1 projects.

For project 1.4 Surf the net or look in your local newspaper archive for instances of foodborne illness outbreaks internationally, nationally, or in your city, county or state. (Email w/attachment, two such occurrences.)

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