Personal HygieneQuestion 107 of 500
A cook at a carnicería handles raw pork, then answers his cell phone, and returns to portion cooked carnitas. How many handwashing opportunities did he miss if he washed at none of these points?
a.None, because the gloves he wore during the raw pork step covered every later contact
b.Zero, since a phone carried in a pocket stays clean enough to handle between food tasks
c.At least two: after the raw pork and after touching the phone, both before handling the cooked carnitas
d.One, and just after the raw pork, because the phone did not touch the carnitas directly
Explanation
He should have washed hands after handling raw pork (before touching anything else), and again after touching his cell phone, which is a contaminated non-food surface, before portioning the ready-to-eat carnitas. That is at least two missed handwashing points. A pocketed phone is handled constantly and is not clean, gloves worn during an earlier step do nothing for the contacts that follow them, and the carnitas do not have to be touched by the phone directly — the hands carry it.
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