scholarly journals Informational Shocks and Street-Food Safety: A Field Study in Urban India

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianmarco Daniele ◽  
Sulagna Mookerjee ◽  
Denni Tommasi
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Street Food ◽  
Urban India

scholarly journals Informational Shocks and Street-Food Safety: A Field Study in Urban India

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-47
Author(s):  
Gianmarco Daniele ◽  
Sulagna Mookerjee ◽  
Denni Tommasi
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Information Acquisition ◽  
Supply Side ◽  
Street Food ◽  
Side Constraints ◽  
Urban India ◽  
Contaminated Food ◽  
Observed Behavior

We investigate whether improvements in street-food safety can be achieved by providing information to vendors in the form of a training. Among randomly assigned vendors in Kolkata, India, we find large improvements in knowledge and awareness, but little change in observed behavior. We provide two main explanations for these findings. First, information acquisition by itself does not make it significantly easier for vendors to provide customers with safer food options. Second, although consumers have a positive willingness to pay for perceived hygiene, they struggle to distinguish between safe and contaminated food. We recommend policies targeting supply-side constraints and consumers' awareness.

scholarly journals Understanding Risk Perception toward Food Safety in Street Food: The Relationships among Service Quality, Values, and Repurchase Intention

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (13) ◽  
pp. 6826
Author(s):  
Kyung Hwa Seo ◽  
Jee Hye Lee
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Risk Perception ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Food Quality ◽  
Perceived Value ◽  
Internet Survey ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Repurchase Intention ◽  
Street Food ◽  
Perception Group

This paper aims to identify service quality dimensions of street food that have an impact on utilitarian and hedonic values and to determine the effect of utilitarian and hedonic values on repurchase intention. It also examines the moderating effect of risk perception toward street food safety on the relationship between service quality and perceived value. An Internet survey was performed in Korea with 285 respondents. The results confirmed that the five dimensions of street food’s service quality—food quality, employee service, physical environment, price, and rapidity of service—had positive impacts on utilitarian and hedonic values. All perceived value (utilitarian, hedonic) has an impact on repurchase intention. Finally, the food quality of street food showed a stronger influence on utilitarian value among the low-risk perception group than the high-risk perception group depending on the consumers’ level of awareness of food safety. This provides new insights for marketing strategies to attract domestic/foreign consumers to street food vendors and for creating a new food culture by emphasizing important domains of service quality, the relation of quality to consumer values, and risk perception toward food safety in street food.

scholarly journals Factors associated with food safety compliance among street food vendors in Can Tho city, Vietnam: implications for intervention activity design and implementation

2022 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ba Huynh-Van ◽  
Vy Vuong-Thao ◽  
Tuyen Huynh-Thi-Thanh ◽  
Sinh Dang-Xuan ◽  
Tung Huynh-Van ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Street Food ◽  
Intervention Activity ◽  
The Status ◽  
Hygiene Compliance ◽  
Basic Infrastructure ◽  
Can Tho City

Abstract Background Street food plays a valuable role in several Asian countries including Vietnam. Improving the safety of street food is an important responsibility for many local food authorities. This study aims to characterize the business profile of fixed and mobile street food vendors, and to compare their compliance with the food safety criteria. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted using a questionnaire and observational checklist to assess the ten Vietnamese food safety criteria prescribed under Decision No. 3199/2000/QD-BYT for street food vendors in Can Tho city. A total of 400 street food vendors, composed of fixed and mobile vendors, in urban areas of the city were randomly selected for the survey. Results The study showed significant differences between the two types of street food vendors in educational level (p = 0.017); business profile, including types of foods vended, area in use, number of employees, training in food safety, and business registration paperwork; and the status of compliance with the ten-food hygiene and safety criteria (p < 0.01). Poisson regression analysis found that education attainment (IRR = 1.228, p = 0.015), food safety training (IRR = 4.855, p < 0.01), total business capital (IRR = 1.004, p = 0.031) and total area in use (IRR = 1.007, p = 0.001) appeared to be significantly positively associated with food safety and hygiene compliance. In contrast, mobile vending type was negatively associated with the likelihood of adhering to the ten criteria (IRR = 0.547, p = 0.005). Conclusions These findings emphasize the need for training and education programs to improve food safety knowledge and practice among street food vendors. Basic infrastructure and services, especially clean water, proper sanitation, and waste disposal facilities, should be provided to help street food vendors better practice food safety and hygiene regulations.

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.

Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of Food Safety Hazards among Street Food Handlers towards Sustainability of Food Industry

2020 ◽  
pp. 519-531
Author(s):  
Hayati Adilin Mohd Abd Majid ◽  
Mufida Syasnim Mohd Sa’ad ◽  
Norshafinas Mohd Noor ◽  
Noorazlin Ramli ◽  
Wan Nazriah Wan Nawawi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
Food Handlers ◽  
Safety Hazards ◽  
Street Food
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