An employee returns from the restroom and immediately begins handling ready-to-eat food without washing their hands. This represents a failure to control which risk factor?

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A: Poor personal hygiene. Per ServSafe Chapter 9, poor personal hygiene is one of the five major risk factors that Active Managerial Control must address. Failing to wash hands after using the restroom before handling ready-to-eat food is a direct personal hygiene violation that can transfer pathogens to food and cause foodborne illness.

An employee returns from the restroom and immediately begins handling ready-to-eat food without washing their hands. This represents a failure to control which risk factor?

West Virginia ServSafe Food Safety Management Test Info