Food Preparation Workers

Description

Perform a variety of food preparation duties other than cooking, such as preparing cold foods and shellfish, slicing meat, and brewing coffee or tea. [SOC] Many foods cause both contact urticaria (fish & shellfish) and allergic contact dermatitis (garlic & onions). Lime and celery are the most common causes of phototoxic dermatitis.[Marks, p. 323-4]

Category

Food Service

SOC Code

35-2021

Job Tasks

High risk job tasks associated with this job:

• Add sulfites to food (potatoes, lobster, wine, apricots)
• Generate bioaerosols of Chinese red rice (food colorant derived from fungi)
• Handle agents that cause allergic contact dermatitis or contact urticaria
• Handle limes, celery, parsnips, or figs
• Prepare fruit salad using a solution of enzymes (pectinase and glucanase)
• Repeatedly inhale bioaerosols of soy sauce fermentation starter