Food Safety (US)

What is in this deck

With this deck you learn the temperatures and the hazards a commercial kitchen runs on: cooling, cooking, holding, allergens and the pathogens behind the rules.

Almost every foodborne outbreak comes back to one of five things: a sick food handler, food held at the wrong temperature, food not cooked enough, dirty equipment, or an unsafe source. Everything in a kitchen's rulebook addresses one of them.

101 cards on the numbers and the reasons. The danger zone and the two-stage cooling rule that fails in its first two hours. 165 for poultry, 155 for ground meat, 145 for a whole cut, and why grinding raises the figure. The storage order in a refrigerator, which is by cooking temperature. The nine allergens, and why cooking removes a pathogen and never one.

Written from the public Food Code and the agencies' own guidance. No certification provider's course material is used, and the certificate that a jurisdiction requires comes from an accredited programme, not from a deck.

The categories decide what comes up: start with “Allergens” alone and add the rest when you are ready.

What you learn

• The danger zone, cooling, reheating and holding
• Cooking temperatures and why each one differs
• The big six pathogens and when a handler is excluded
• The nine allergens and why cross-contact is different
• Cleaning against sanitising, and HACCP in seven steps

The categories

14 categories sort the 101 cards. You can filter by category and take on what is due right now.

1. Allergens
2. Cleaning
3. Facilities
4. Foundations
5. Handling
6. Hygiene
7. Illness
8. Pathogens
9. Personal hygiene
10. Pests
11. Receiving
12. Storage
13. Systems
14. Temperature

Where the content comes from

The cards follow FDA Food Code, published by U.S. Food and Drug Administration. As of Ausgabe 2022.

Learning with Qardbox

You see a card, you think, you turn it over and say whether you knew it. A round asks nothing more of you, and how the app works out the next date from that is on the page about FSRS-6.

What sits comes back less often, what wobbles comes back soon. You set a daily goal, and when nothing is due the app tells you exactly that instead of inventing work for you. How a round goes is shown on the learning page.

Everything stays on your device. No account, no sign-up, no ads. After the purchase the deck sits in your library like any other subject and can be studied, reordered and extended just like your own.

What it costs, and what it doesn’t

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Your own cards stay unlimited, and decks from friends or from the family you read in without a limit, from a file as well. You do not need this deck in order to learn with Qardbox.

It is a shortcut: 101 checked cards for €0.99, once, with Family Sharing. The work you would otherwise do is already done. The App Store shows the price in your currency.