ICAR AICE-JRF/SRF (PhD) — Food Processing Technology, Food Safety & Quality, Processing and Food Engineering · India · ICAR through the National Testing Agency
Original practice questions written to the published syllabus · not past papersICAR AICE-JRF/SRF (PhD) — Food Processing Technology, Food Safety & Quality, Processing and Food Engineering is a PhD, fellowship and lectureship exam run by ICAR through the National Testing Agency, for candidates in India. Computer-based, multiple choice.
Source: icar.org.in.
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The work of a food safety officer or food inspector: national food control systems, risk-based inspection, licensing and registration checks, legal sampling procedures, laboratory referral and appeal, adjudication and prosecution, food-borne outbreak investigation, and education of food businesses.
Our 15 ICAR AICE-JRF/SRF questions in this subject: 0 easy, 12 medium, 3 hard, across 9 units.
Choose an answer, then open the working. Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why the others are not.
These 10 were written to ICAR AICE-JRF/SRF and are not shown on any other exam's page.
In risk analysis, why is risk assessment kept separate from risk management?
A. To shield the science from policy and economic pressure
Functional separation protects the scientific integrity of the assessment, while managers weigh it with other legitimate factors; the two still communicate. Assessors do not set legal limits.
Which Codex text gives the international basis for representative sampling plans?
A. CXG 50-2004 General Guidelines on Sampling
CXG 50-2004 explains sampling plans and representative sampling. The others cover labelling, emergency information exchange and hygiene.
Why do differences sometimes arise between results of different laboratories on parts of the same sample?
A. Heterogeneity, changes in storage, method differences or analytical error
Uneven distribution of the analyte, changes during storage, different methods and genuine errors can all cause differences; uncertainty applies to all measurements. Differences do not by themselves prove fraud.
In United States federal food law, food prepared or held under insanitary conditions whereby it may have become contaminated is classed as what?
C. Adulterated
US law treats insanitary conditions, deleterious substances, filth or decomposition and economic substitution as adulteration. Misbranding concerns labelling; "substandard" is a term used in some other laws.
What does the principle of proportionality require in food law enforcement?
D. Action that matches the risk and seriousness, using the least burdensome effective tool
Proportionate enforcement escalates from advice to formal action according to risk and response. Uniform maximum penalties or blanket prosecution are disproportionate; size does not exempt anyone.
An epidemic curve shows a sharp peak with all cases within about one incubation period. What type of outbreak does this suggest?
B. A point-source outbreak
A single exposure event gives a tight cluster of onsets; propagated spread gives successive waves; a continuing source gives a plateau.
In a case-control study, 30 of 50 cases and 15 of 75 controls ate a suspect cheese. What is the odds ratio?
D. 6
a = 30 exposed cases, b = 20 unexposed cases, c = 15 exposed controls, d = 60 unexposed controls. OR = (a × d)/(b × c) = (30 × 60)/(20 × 15) = 6. 3 is the ratio of exposure proportions (60%/20%); 2 is 30/15; 0.17 is the inverse.
In the European Union's RASFF, which type of notification is used when food presenting a serious risk is on the market and rapid action is needed?
C. Alert notification
Alerts concern serious risks on the market requiring rapid action. Information notifications concern risks not needing rapid action; border rejections concern consignments refused entry; news items carry other information.
Why does traceability "one step back, one step forward" allow a full recall even though no business records the whole chain?
B. Authorities link each business's records to rebuild the chain
Each operator knows its immediate suppliers and customers; authorities follow these links step by step to trace product to origin and to all recipients. Consumers are not required to keep records.
Which Codex texts give proportionate hygiene requirements for street-vended foods?
B. Regional codes of hygienic practice for street-vended foods
Codex has regional codes for street-vended foods in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The other texts are not about street vending.
This plan follows where our questions actually fall, so the time goes where the marks are likely to be. It is our reading of the syllabus, not the exam body's weighting.
Read the manual chapters for these first and do every worked question you can find on them.
Aim for one sitting per unit, then mixed questions across them.
Learn the definitions, classifications and standard numbers; these units are more often recalled than worked.
Come back to these after a first pass, untimed, and read every explanation, including for the options you rejected.
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