Title: Demonstrate food safety and sanitation practices.
Course: Family and Consumer Sciences Exploratory I (19903-6) > Section: Understanding Nutrition and Wellness

Demonstration should include:

- using proper hand-washing techniques
- using proper cleaning materials and procedures
- ensuring that food is stored safely with regard to shelf life, open vs. closed containers, types of storage containers or wraps, and shelf vs. refrigerator or freezer
- observing time and temperature requirements (i.e., danger zone and internal temperatures)
- avoiding cross-contamination.

Demonstration should also address the reason for keeping food areas contaminant-free.

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- What are the standards of cleanliness for the food environment?
- What hand-washing procedures are essential for a sanitary food environment? Why?

Communication

- What is a respectful way to encourage your classmates to follow sanitary procedures?
- What is a respectful way to decline food because of an unsanitary situation?

Leadership

- What are your responsibilities for keeping the food environment sanitary?
- How can you be responsible for maintaining your own personal hygiene around food?

Management

- What should you consider when planning how to clean your food environment?
- What consequences may result from an unsanitary food environment?