Home-Canned Foods Should Be Boiled for 10 Minutes Before Eating

question 36

Multiple Choice

Home-canned foods should be boiled for 10 minutes before eating to help prevent:

• A) shigellosis.
• B) staphylococcal food poisoning.
• C) salmonellosis.
• D) botulism.

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Definitions:

Sulfonamide

A functional group or compound containing the sulfonamide group, which is -SO2NH2, used in many drugs.

Hofmann Elimination

A chemical reaction where an amine is treated with an excess of a halogen compound to yield an alkene.

E2 Pathway

A type of bimolecular elimination reaction mechanism where a substrate undergoes deprotonation by a base, leading to the formation of a double bond and the loss of a leaving group in a single step.

E1

A type of unimolecular elimination reaction where the rate determining step involves the removal of a leaving group, forming a carbocation intermediate.