Across
- 3. government agency which monitors the production and distribution of all food products except meat and poultry
- 5. remove from or to reduce the size of a herd
- 7. materials which extinguish various agricultural pests, including weeds and insects
- 10. practice of varying successive crops in the same field
- 11. keep in confinement or to keep isolated
- 13. process of getting food from the farm or processing plant to the consumer or food service facility
- 15. reproduction process in which pollen grains are carried from plant to plant
- 16. public health agency accountable for food safety
- 17. practice involving growing two or more crops in the same field
- 19. covering the ground with compost to prevent evaporation or erosion
- 20. giving manufacturers exclusive rights to a process, design or new invention
- 22. documented steps which must be followed in the food industry to ensure proper cleaning of product contact and non-contact surfaces
- 23. organism which has been modified genetically for better quality
- 24. food items grown without the use of pesticides, antibiotics or growth hormones; controlled by USDA standards
Down
- 1. getting food ready to eat
- 2. growing the plans we harvest or raising the animals we use for food
- 4. crop plants which were grown in the past and have been bred to be adapted to a specific environment
- 6. government agency which oversees the application of safety, animal welfare and quality standards of agricultural processes
- 8. utilization of resources to make them last for an extended period of time
- 9. the period it takes for an antibiotic to leave an animal's system
- 10. antibiotics which have not completely left the animals' system before slaughter
- 12. method of planting multiple crops on one piece of land
- 14. process by which a plant grows from a seed
- 18. changing plants or animals into what we recognize as food
- 21. infectious diseases of animals which can be transferred to humans