Question

Which action demonstrates an unsafe food safety practice?

always washing hands with warm water and soap before and after handling food
washing a cutting board with hot, soapy water after using it to cut raw meat
storing leftover foods at room temperature on a countertop
choosing meat or poultry in packaging that is sealed tightly

Answer 1

Storing leftover foods at room temperature on a countertop demonstrates an unsafe food safety practice.

Answer 2

storing leftover foods at room temperature on a countertop

Step-by-step explanation:

It may seem obvious, but it never hurts to point out that when it comes to storing perishable foods, the most important rule of all is that they must be refrigerated! Foods kept at room temperature facilitate the proliferation of bacteria. Experts warn of a danger zone between 5ºC and 60ºC.

Therefore, most foods must be outside this range for safe storage to occur. Otherwise there will be proliferation of bacteria that produce toxins as they multiply. So the old maxim that “fire kills everything” no longer applies here.