Assessment of Food Safety Knowledge and Attitude of Street Food Consumers in the Kumasi Metropolis

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Acheampong Frank
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Street Food ◽  
Knowledge And Attitude ◽  
Safety Knowledge

scholarly journals Factors Associated with Food Hygiene Practices Among Street Food Vendors in Padawan, Sarawak

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Drend Jores ◽  
Mohamad Taha Arif ◽  
Md Mizanur Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Bivariate Analysis ◽  
Hygiene Practice ◽  
Street Food ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Hygiene Practices ◽  
Inadequate Sample Size ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Knowledge And Attitude ◽  
Safety Knowledge

The safety and quality of street foods are still questionable. Street food vendors are often poorly educated and untrained in food safety with lack of food safety knowledge and poor hygiene practice. This study aims to identify the factors associated with hygienic practice of food safety among the streets food vendors in Padawan district, Sarawak. This was a cross-sectional study conducted in Padawan, Sarawak. Data was collected by face to face interview using a validated structured questionnaire. The practice of food safety was observed using a structured observation checklist. Data entry and analysis was done by SPSS version 22.0. A p value <0.05 was considered as statistically significant. A total of 117 street food vendors were interviewed. The mean (SD) age was 41.0 (11.8) years. Three-fifths (62.9%) of the respondents had secondary level of education and higher. The mean (SD) duration of vending was 7.2 (6.7) years. Only 35.9% of the street food vendors received at least one training on food safety. Bivariate analysis revealed that religion, knowledge and attitude appeared to be statistically significant predictors of food safety and hygiene practice. However, multinomial regression analysis revealed that only religion appeared to be important predictor of food safety and hygiene practice (AOR = 14.730, 95% CI: 1.267, 171.228). Although this study failed to establish a statistical significant association between knowledge and attitude with the hygiene practice due to inadequate sample size, some relationship does seem to exist, suggesting that food safety knowledge is vital for all street food vendors to have the necessary skills to enable them to handle food hygienically and ensure food sold is safe for consumption. Keywords: Food safety, food vendors, hygiene practices, Malaysia, Sarawak

scholarly journals Evaluation of microbial safety knowledge, attitude and practice of street food vendors and consumers in Can Tho City, Vietnam

Food Research ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 1802-1814
Author(s):  
T.T.A. Ngoc ◽  
N.T.M. Hang ◽  
D.K. Thanh ◽  
L.V. Hoa
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Observation Study ◽  
Street Food ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
Food Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge And Attitude ◽  
Can Tho City ◽  
Safety Knowledge ◽  
Safety Attitude ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice

Street foods have become much more popular in Vietnam. However, the information on the safety of street food sold in Vietnam and food knowledge safety as well as awareness of both Vietnamese vendors and consumers is very limited. The aim of this study was to evaluate the level of knowledge, attitude, and practice in food safety of street food consumers and vendors who volunteered to participate in the study in Can Tho city, Vietnam. This study was conducted in two parts. In the first part, 838 food consumers and 598 food handlers were interviewed via a questionnaire to assess their food safety knowledge and attitude. The second part focused on the observation of the food handling practice of the vendors by means of a checklist. Results indicated that consumers and vendors generally exhibited average food safety knowledge and attitude levels. The consumers and vendors were determined to have higher levels of food safety attitude than knowledge, whilst trained consumers and vendors had better food safety knowledge and attitude compared to untrained consumers and vendors. The observation study showed that the majority of the vendors had unhygienic practice i.e. handled food with bare hands (84.5%), handled money while serving food (92.3%) and without washing hands after handling money (93.3%), etc. These results justify the need for training the vendors about food safety knowledge and practice and further additional studies of street foods and their potential risk of foodborne illness.

scholarly journals A study on sanitation, hygiene practices and food safety knowledge among food vendors in different sectors of Chandigarh, India

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 931-934
Author(s):  
Aradhana Thakur Thakur ◽  
Uttara Singh
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Personal Hygiene ◽  
Demographic Information ◽  
Street Food ◽  
Hygiene Practices ◽  
Bare Hand ◽  
Safety Knowledge ◽  
The City

The present study were carried out to assess the hygiene practices and food safety among street food vendors in the city of Chandigarh. It includes 100 samples of vendors.  Fifty vendors were mobile and other 50 was fixed vendors. A self planned questionnaire was used for data collection for the vendors. The questionnaire included questions about demographic information, hygiene practices and food safety. Thirty eight percent of vendors used stalls, but did not uphold their stalls well.  Eighty-three per cent of the vendors had thrown garbage in the open vessel and 14.0% used dustbin for dispose garbage. Personal hygiene was also observed which indicated that the vendors never wear the head covers, handled food with bare hand and they did not wear overcoats/aprons as well. Street food vendors were not aware of hygienic and sanitary practice.

scholarly journals RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FOOD SAFETY KNOWLEDGE AND HYGIENE PRACTICES OF STREET FOOD VENDORS IN TRA VINH CITY

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (26) ◽  
pp. 16-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hoang Minh Vo ◽  
Tham Thi Hong Nguyen ◽  
Tam Minh Le
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Demographic Information ◽  
Street Food ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Interview Method ◽  
Hygiene Practices ◽  
Adequate Food ◽  
Safety Knowledge ◽  
The Relationship

The objective of this study is to explore the relationship between the current food safety knowledge of street food vendors and their hygiene practices in Tra Vinh city. Fifty street food vendors were randomly selected and the survey was conducted using a face-to-face interview method through the questionnaire. The results showed evidence of a slight relationship between the food safety knowledge of the street food vendors and their hygiene practices (r = 0.27, p > 0.05).  Based on the demographic information, the education might be the most important factor for a better understanding of the variability of the food safety  knowledge (F = 3.54, p < 0.05), but not that of the hygiene practices (F = 0.78, p > 0.05). Until recently, the training of food safety knowledge has been conducted with the expectation that street food vendors would prepare and store food safely in case they would have adequate food safety and hygiene knowledge.  However, our study shows that the current training way has not been effective due to the fact that the behavior of street food vendors who were trained was not different from the behavior of street food vendors who were not trained

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