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Cufaoglu G, Ambarcioglu P, Ünsal Adaca A. Does Food Safety Knowledge Affect Attitudes and Practices? A Preliminary Study of Turkish Veterinary Students. J Vet Med Educ 2023; 50:77-88. [PMID: 35073250 DOI: 10.3138/jvme-2021-0132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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This study aimed to evaluate effects of the food safety courses that veterinary medicine students take during their education at Kirikkale University, Turkey, on the students' food safety knowledge, attitudes, and practices. A questionnaire comprising demographic, knowledge, attitudes, and practices sections was developed, and eight experts performed the clarity test. The questionnaire was pilot-tested by 35 students. The final questionnaire was conducted among Kirikkale University first-year (freshmen) and fifth-year (senior) veterinary medicine students (n = 224). According to logistic regression analysis results, seniors were 2.8 times more likely than freshmen to have high-level knowledge. However, regardless of students' grades, knowledge level was not observed to correlate with students' behaviors. Additionally, no significant relation was found between knowledge level and gender, food safety career plan, or food poisoning experience (p > .05). Conspicuously, students who lived in a village before entering university were 5.3 times more likely to have high-level knowledge than those who lived in a city center. Overall, this study shows that food safety courses in the curriculum lead to an increase in students' level of food safety knowledge. However, although an increase in knowledge level positively influenced food safety attitudes, students had problems putting their knowledge and attitudes into practice. This may be overcome by focusing on practical courses that teach students how to apply learned knowledge in daily life.
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- Gizem Cufaoglu
- Department of Food Hygiene and Technology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kirikkale University, Kirikkale, Turkey
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- Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Mustafa Kemal University, Hatay, Turkey
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- Department of Veterinary History and Deontology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey
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Islam MN, Hassan HF, Amin MB, Madilo FK, Rahman MA, Haque MR, Aktarujjaman M, Farjana N, Roy N. Food safety and handling knowledge and practices among university students of Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study. Heliyon 2022; 8:e11987. [DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e11987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2022] [Revised: 11/17/2022] [Accepted: 11/23/2022] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Limon MR, Vallente JPC, Chua CT, Rustia AS. Situating curriculum in context: Using Glatthorn's Standards-Based Curriculum Development Model to contextualize food safety learning competencies. Food Control 2022; 132:108538. [DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2021.108538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Kharisma FAM, Riolina A. Dietary Pattern in Junior High School Students: Literature Review. ELECTRON J GEN MED 2021. [DOI: 10.29333/ejgm/11320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Limon MR. Validation of a researcher-developed food safety curriculum guide for junior high school students using Delphi technique. Food Control 2021; 125:108011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2021.108011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Mohammadi-Nasrabadi F, Salmani Y, Esfarjani F. A quasi-experimental study on the effect of health and food safety training intervention on restaurant food handlers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Food Sci Nutr 2021; 9:3655-3663. [PMID: 34221365 PMCID: PMC8239679 DOI: 10.1002/fsn3.2326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2021] [Revised: 04/24/2021] [Accepted: 04/25/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The restaurant business has turned into a dynamic and ever‐growing industry. So, food safety must be a priority for these establishments, especially during the COVID‐19 pandemic. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of training intervention on the health and food safety knowledge, attitude, and self‐reported practice (KAP) of restaurant food handlers during the COVID‐19 pandemic. This quasi‐experimental study was conducted on 159 restaurant food handlers in Tehran, Iran. The training intervention was developed based on the latest global guidelines. The KAP of the subjects was measured before and after the training. Fisher's exact test, paired t test, and repeated measures ANOVA were used for statistical analysis. Data analysis was done using the IBM_SPSS software. The total knowledge scores of participants were low (17.6%), moderate (35.2%), and good (47.2%) before training, which were changed to 5% (low), 23.9% (moderate), and 71.1% (good) after training. The total pretraining attitude scores were 0.6, 77.4, 18.2, and 3.8% that were changed to 0% (strongly negative), 49.1% (negative), 33.3% (positive), and 17.6% (strongly positive), respectively. Also, the self‐reported practice scores of the participants before training were 1.3, 56, and 42.7 that were changed to 0% (weak), 26.4% (acceptable), and 73.6% (desirable) after the intervention, respectively. Paired t test results showed a statistically significant increase in all scores. The interaction of training with age and education was statistically significant in increasing the knowledge and attitude scores of the participants by the repeated measures ANOVA. Improving the KAP of food handlers by health and food safety training can improve the status of restaurants and minimize the outbreak of pandemic diseases, including COVID‐19, which is an effective step in community health. Thus, it is an urgent need for policymakers to design an online system of continuous food safety training for food handlers.
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- Fatemeh Mohammadi-Nasrabadi
- Research Department of Food and Nutrition Policy and Planning Faculty of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology, National Nutrition & Food Technology Research Institute (NNFTRI), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences Tehran Iran
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- Research Department of Food and Nutrition Policy and Planning Faculty of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology, National Nutrition & Food Technology Research Institute (NNFTRI), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences Tehran Iran
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- Research Department of Food and Nutrition Policy and Planning Faculty of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology, National Nutrition & Food Technology Research Institute (NNFTRI), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences Tehran Iran
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Uçar A, Ülger TG, Çakıroğlu FP. What changed between 2008-2020 about Employees' perception of hygiene in the catering industry in Ankara (Turkey)? AIMS Public Health 2021; 8:275-284. [PMID: 34017891 PMCID: PMC8116189 DOI: 10.3934/publichealth.2021021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2021] [Accepted: 03/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Food safety is a public health concern because foodborne diseases have been increasing in recent years due to several factors such as urbanization, globalization and changes in consumer habits. Many countries in the world, including Turkey have upgraded their laws about food and personnel hygiene in the catering industry and undertaken changes to the organizational structure of their regulatory institutions to protect consumers' health. In this study, it was aimed to evaluate the perceptions of food processors on food safety and to determine whether there has been a change in this matter over the last 12 years. The data has been collected by conducting face to face interviews and having 500 employees from the sector fill in a questionnaire constructed for this purpose. The responses to the questionnaire have been measured by assigning 'hygiene perception points' to each respondent according to their replies. These hygiene perception points have been analysed in terms of gender, age, educational level and work experience of the employees involved. The results have revealed that employees between the ages of 26-34, women, university graduates have a higher level of perception of hygiene than other age groups, men, those with lower education levels, respectively. Hygiene perception points were found to be higher compared to the results obtained 12 years ago. The positive changes observed in the hygiene perception points are thought to result from the differences in the legislation of the years in which both studies were conducted. It is thought that the obligatory of providing hygiene and food safety training to individuals working in the catering sector with law changes leads to positive changes in the employees. Legally compulsory training activities can overcome many sanitation and safety problems that result from misinformed or uninformed employees.
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- Aslı Uçar
- Ankara University Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Ankara, Turkey
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- Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Bolu, Turkey
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- Ankara University Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Ankara, Turkey
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Azanaw J, Dagne H, Andualem Z, Adane T. Food Safety Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of College Students, Ethiopia, 2019: A Cross-Sectional Study. Biomed Res Int 2021; 2021:6686392. [PMID: 33506030 PMCID: PMC7815420 DOI: 10.1155/2021/6686392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2020] [Revised: 12/23/2020] [Accepted: 01/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND Since the dawn of human history, foodborne diseases have been a problem for all societies, and it is an increasing public health issue worldwide. The objective of this study is to examine knowledge, practice, and attitude in food safety among college students in the city Gondar, northwest Ethiopia. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted among 430 randomly selected college students in Gondar City, northwest Ethiopia, from October 8 to November 30, 2019. The data was gathered through a self-administered questionnaire. The collected data were checked for completeness, coded manually, and entered into Epi Info version 7, then exported to SPSS version 26 for more data checking, cleaning, and analysis. One-way ANOVA was done for examining sociodemographic variable association with KAP, and Pearson correlation analysis was conducted to measure the association among food safety knowledge, attitude, and practice scores. The p value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant for both tests. RESULTS The number of females was higher among the study participants (65.5%). The mean age of participates was 21.1 ± 9.14 (SD) years. The higher percentage (45.7%) of the participants were students in the second year. The overall scores of the food safety knowledge, attitude, and practices of the respondents were 35.7% (good), 38.0% (good), and 29.1% (positive), respectively. Participants with differences in gender, year of study, and food safety training had a substantial variation in overall food safety knowledge (p value < 0.05). The findings have clearly shown that knowledge of food safety does not directly affect the attitude towards food safety (p value > 0.05). On the other hand, overall food safety practice differed in terms of sex, year of schooling, and knowledge of food safety (p value < 0.05) among participants. Training and knowledge score had significant correlation among respondents (p value < 0.05). CONCLUSION This study revealed that the overall knowledge, practices, and attitude towards food safety among college students were very low. There was a significant association between knowledge and practice while food safety practices were independent with an attitude among the students. Such results indicated that there could be problems with foodborne diseases. Therefore, the findings of this study proposed that strength should be done to improve the existing food safety knowledge, practice, and attitude in college students in addition to their normal education.
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- Jember Azanaw
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia
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Susanna D, Kusuma A, Mairani T, Fitria L. The implementation of the five keys to safer food in campus cafeterias and the effects on Escherichia coli contamination. Ital J Food Saf 2020; 9:8782. [PMID: 33282757 PMCID: PMC7706364 DOI: 10.4081/ijfs.2020.8782] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/25/2019] [Accepted: 05/26/2020] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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The World Health Organization developed five keys to safer food’s guidelines. This study aimed to determine the relationships between food handlers’ knowledge, attitudes, and behavior to the guideline and Escherichia coli (E. coli) contamination of food served at campus cafeterias. This cross-sectional study was carried out by interviewing 98 food handlers selling food and by testing samples for E. coli. The dependent variable was E. coli contamination, while the independent variables were the knowledge, attitudes, and behavior of food handlers based on the guideline. Each independent variable had five sub-variables that corresponded to the guideline. The data were analyzed using chisquare and logistic regression tests. The results showed that food handlers’ knowledge of cooking food thoroughly was significantly related to E. coli contamination (P=0.54 [P<0.05]; OR=2.990;95%CI:1.093– 8.180). Furthermore, the food handlers’ attitudes toward cooking food thoroughly were related to E. coli contamination (P=0.58 [P<0.05]; OR=0.385;95%CI:0.157– 0.944). There were two factors related to E. coli contamination: the food handlers’ knowledge of and attitudes toward the third key of the five keys to food safety.
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- Dewi Susanna
- Faculty of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health, Universitas Indonesia
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- Center of Public Health Intervention Technology, National Institute of Health Research and Development, Ministry of Health, Indonesia
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- Faculty of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health, Universitas Indonesia
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- Faculty of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health, Universitas Indonesia
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Ruby GE, Ungku Zainal Abidin UF, Lihan S, Jambari NN, Radu S. Predicting intention on safe food handling among adult consumers: A cross sectional study in Sibu district, Malaysia. Food Control 2019; 106:106696. [DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2019.06.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Diplock KJ, Jones-Bitton A, Leatherdale ST, Rebellato S, Hammond D, Majowicz SE. Food Safety Education Needs of High-School Students: Leftovers, Lunches, and Microwaves. J Sch Health 2019; 89:578-586. [PMID: 31087340 DOI: 10.1111/josh.12782] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2017] [Revised: 06/22/2018] [Accepted: 07/20/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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BACKGROUND We explored priority areas of food safety education needed by high-school students within Ontario, Canada. METHODS We analyzed transcripts from semistructured interviews with 20 experts in food safety, food safety education in youth, and high-school education in Ontario. Inductive thematic analysis was used to identify priority food safety education needs. RESULTS We identified 4 priority action areas for food safety education targeting students: how to safely do the things they typically do with food; how to keep themselves and their kitchens clean and safe; how microorganisms grow and how they can result in foodborne disease; and how to keep food out of the "danger zone" 4°C to 60°C (40° F to 140° F). The results indicate that students need specific education around the use of microwaves, consumption of convenience meals, preparing and handling foods at school events, and safe transportation of food for lunches, school trips, and sporting events. CONCLUSIONS High-school students need food safety education specific to their usual interactions with food, including the foods, tools, and settings students regularly encounter. Delivery of food safety education should emphasize sequences of safe food-handling behaviors for specific food interactions, such as reheating a meal in the microwave, rather than traditional food safety concepts, such as temperature abuse.
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- Kenneth J Diplock
- School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo 200 University Ave. West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
- School of Health and Life Sciences and Community Services, Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advance Learning, 299 Doon Valley Drive, Kitchener, Ontario Canada N2G 4M4
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- Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1
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- CIHR-PHAC Chair in Applied Public Health Research School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave. West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
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- Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1
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- CIHR-PHAC Chair in Applied Public Health, School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave. West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
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- School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave. West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
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Temperature control prevents the rapid growth of foodborne pathogens during food storage and assures adequate heating to destroy pathogens prior to consumption. The use of thermometers is a recognized best practice among consumer and food worker guidelines; however, compliance with this recommendation is quite low. Eighty-five studies from the past 21 years were reviewed and an analyzed for the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors associated with thermometer use and the motivators and barriers to cooking and refrigerator thermometer use among consumers and food workers. Barriers to thermometer were categorized into two major groups: "the belief that a thermometer is not necessary" and "the difficulty of selecting and using a thermometer." Each group has its unique aspects. Four barriers were recognized in the "not necessary" group: (i) preference for alternative techniques, (ii) mainstream media and food professionals seldom serve as role models and often negate the need for food thermometers, (iii) limited awareness of potential health issues associated with current practices, and (iv) limited knowledge and awareness related to thermometer usage for specific food groups. Six barriers were recognized in the "difficult to select and use" group: (i) difficulties in selecting the type of food thermometers, (ii) availability of food thermometers, (iii) lack of skills related to the usage of food thermometers, (iv) limited knowledge related to endpoint temperatures, (v) inability to calibrate food thermometers, and (vi) lack of knowledge about food thermometer cleaning and sanitation. These findings will facilitate the development and adoption of effective strategies to increase thermometer use and increase food safety education efficacy with a positive impact on public health.
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- Yaohua Feng
- 1 Department of Food Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 (ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3012-1930 )
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- 2 Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
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Diplock KJ, Dubin JA, Leatherdale ST, Hammond D, Jones-Bitton A, Majowicz SE. Observation of High School Students' Food Handling Behaviors: Do They Improve following a Food Safety Education Intervention? J Food Prot 2018; 81:917-925. [PMID: 29745755 DOI: 10.4315/0362-028x.jfp-17-441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Youth are a key audience for food safety education. They often engage in risky food handling behaviors, prepare food for others, and have limited experience and knowledge of safe food handling practices. Our goal was to investigate the effectiveness of an existing food handler training program for improving safe food handling behaviors among high school students in Ontario, Canada. However, because no schools agreed to provide control groups, we evaluated whether behaviors changed following delivery of the intervention program and whether changes were sustained over the school term. We measured 32 food safety behaviors, before the intervention and at 2-week and 3-month follow-up evaluations by in-person observations of students ( n = 119) enrolled in grade 10 and 12 Food and Nutrition classes ( n = 8) and who individually prepared recipes. We examined within-student changes in behaviors across the three time points, using mixed effects regression models to model trends in the total food handling score (of a possible 32 behaviors) and subscores for "clean" (17 behaviors), "separate" (14 behaviors), and "cook" (1 behavior), adjusting for student characteristics. At baseline, students ( n = 108) averaged 49.1% (15.7 of 32 behaviors; standard deviation = 5.8) correct food handling behaviors, and only 5.5% (6) of the 108 students used a food thermometer to check the doneness of the chicken (the "cook" behavior). All four behavior score types increased significantly ∼2 weeks postintervention and remained unchanged ∼3 months later. Student characteristics (e.g., having taken a prior food handling course) were not significant predictors of the total number of correctly performed food handling behaviors or of the "clean" or "separate" behaviors, working or volunteering in a food service establishment was the only characteristic significantly associated with food thermometer use (i.e., "cook"). Despite the significant increase in correct behaviors, students continued to use risky practices postintervention, suggesting that the risk of foodborne disease remained.
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- Kenneth J Diplock
- 1 School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1.,2 School of Health and Life Sciences and Community Services, Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada N2G 4M4
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- 1 School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1.,3 Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
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- 1 School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
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- 1 School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
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- 4 Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1
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- 1 School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
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Kerangart S, Cournoyer B, Loukiadis E. C-source metabolic profilings of foodborne Shiga-toxin producing E. coli match serogroup differentiations and highlight functional adaptations. Int J Food Microbiol 2017; 266:324-336. [PMID: 29217302 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2017.10.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2017] [Revised: 10/05/2017] [Accepted: 10/13/2017] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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The tropism of pathogenic STEC for foodstuffs and cattle reservoir is related to functional specializations. An investigation of C-source utilization patterns among and between STEC serogroups was performed using omnilog phenotypic microarrays (OM). OM functional groupings were compared with STEC phylogroups, seropathotypes, EFSA's molecular risk assessment groups and serogroups. OM INT reduction activities of 37 STEC strains growing on 190 C-substrates were compared. Each strain had its own specific C-utilization profile but 23% of the substrates was used by all strains, 47% by none, and 30% was variably metabolized. Galactose, mannose, N-acetyl-glucosamine (GlcNAc), and N-acetyl neuraminic acid (Neu5Ac) found in the mucus layer of the bovine small intestine were metabolized by all strains. The 56 most informative substrates divided the C-utilization patterns (CP) into three clusters with: (A) harboring all O157 and O145 strains; (B) all O26 strains, and (C) strains of the other serogroups. Significant correlations between INT reduction values of pair of strains per CP group supported these differentiations. CP of group A and B strains were respectively defective in the use of galactonic acid-γ-lactone and rhamnose. Most CP group C strains grew with l-lyxose. Adjusted Wallace coefficients analyses of the datasets indicated high probabilities for the prediction of the use of glycolic acid, β-hydroxybutyric acid, l-lyxose and d-galactonic acid-γ-lactone and 5-keto-d-gluconic acid by a serogroup. The use of a C-substrate could be predicted from the classification of a strain into a phylogroup or seropathotype. Significantly lower numbers of C-substrates were used by seropathotype A strains like O157 ones. Improvements of STEC identification keys were proposed using the most discriminant C-substrates found in this study.
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- Stéphane Kerangart
- University of Lyon, Research group on "Bacterial Opportunistic Pathogens and Environment", UMR Ecologie Microbienne, CNRS 5557, INRA 1418, University Lyon 1, VetAgro Sup, 69280 Marcy L'Etoile, France
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- University of Lyon, Research group on "Bacterial Opportunistic Pathogens and Environment", UMR Ecologie Microbienne, CNRS 5557, INRA 1418, University Lyon 1, VetAgro Sup, 69280 Marcy L'Etoile, France.
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- University of Lyon, Research group on "Bacterial Opportunistic Pathogens and Environment", UMR Ecologie Microbienne, CNRS 5557, INRA 1418, University Lyon 1, VetAgro Sup, 69280 Marcy L'Etoile, France; University of Lyon, VetAgro Sup, LMAP, National Reference Laboratory for Escherichia coli (including VTEC), Marcy L'Etoile, France
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Cheng Y, Zhang Y, Ma J, Zhan S. Food safety knowledge, attitude and self-reported practice of secondary school students in Beijing, China: A cross-sectional study. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0187208. [PMID: 29095878 PMCID: PMC5667794 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0187208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2017] [Accepted: 10/16/2017] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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In China, food safety problems have occurred frequently in the past ten years, causing great concern for the public. Adolescents, with higher exposure to problematic food, represent a unique target for interventions aimed at risk reduction. To understand their food safety knowledge, attitude and practice, a cross-sectional survey using paper questionnaire was carried out among 4,220 students (median age of 14 years, 50.3% females) from nine secondary schools in 3 districts of Beijing. The findings showed that the majority of respondents (42.0%) had a high knowledge level. Significant association was found between food safety knowledge score (median = 11, IQR:9-13) and demographic characteristics of region, school type, residence type, habit of smoking and alcohol use, academic record and parents' education background. In terms of attitude and practice, only 17% of those surveyed regarded China's food safety situation as good, 53.6% regarded it as worrying; almost all students (96.5%) did pay attention to food safety; 95.3% of the students had worried about the safety of the food provided by the small restaurants and street peddlers, but in reality, as many as 69.4% often or occasionally bought food from peddlers around their campuses and nearly half continued the consumption of such food in spite of worrying about its safety problems. Overall, the food safety knowledge among Beijing secondary school students was relatively good. They did not show much confidence in the country's food safety situation, but many aware of the safety issues did not bother to change or take action. The study suggests that more systematic and targeted education on food safety is necessary for this age group.
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- Yinchu Cheng
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Peking University School of Public Health, Beijing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Peking University School of Public Health, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Child and Adolescent Health of Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Peking University School of Public Health, Beijing, China
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Murray R, Glass-Kaastra S, Gardhouse C, Marshall B, Ciampa N, Franklin K, Hurst M, Thomas MK, Nesbitt A. Canadian Consumer Food Safety Practices and Knowledge: Foodbook Study. J Food Prot 2017; 80:1711-1718. [PMID: 28906156 DOI: 10.4315/0362-028x.jfp-17-108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Understanding consumers' food safety practices and knowledge supports food safety education for the prevention of foodborne illness. The objective of this study was to describe Canadian consumer food safety practices and knowledge. This study identifies demographic groups for targeted food safety education messaging and establishes a baseline measurement to assess the effectiveness of food safety interventions over time. Questions regarding consumer food safety practices and knowledge were included in a population-based telephone survey, Foodbook, conducted from November 2014 to March 2015. The results were analyzed nationally by age group and by gender. The results showed that approximately 90% of Canadians reported taking the recommended cleaning and separating precautions when handling raw meat to prevent foodborne illness. Only 29% of respondents reported using a food thermometer when cooking any meat, and even fewer (12%) reported using a food thermometer for small cuts of meat such as chicken pieces. The majority (>80%) of Canadians were aware of the foodborne illness risks related to chicken and hamburger, but fewer (<40%) were aware of the risks related to frozen chicken nuggets, alfalfa sprouts, soft unpasteurized cheese, and unpasteurized juices. Generally, men were less likely to follow cooking instructions on packaging and took fewer steps to prevent cross-contamination than women. The youngest (18 to 29 years) age group was less likely to take steps to avoid cross-contamination and was less aware of the risks associated with eating an undercooked hamburger. The oldest (60+ years) respondents were less likely to be aware of the risks associated with raw eggs, alfalfa sprouts, and unpasteurized juice than the middle (30 to 59 years) age group. As a priority, food safety education in Canada should focus on increasing people's awareness of high-risk foods, specifically foods for which the awareness of risk found in this study was low; targeting messaging to demographic groups as appropriate; and promoting the use of food thermometers when cooking meat and poultry.
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- Regan Murray
- Centre for Food-borne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada, 255 Woodlawn Road West, Unit 120, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1H 8J1
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- Centre for Food-borne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada, 255 Woodlawn Road West, Unit 120, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1H 8J1
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- Centre for Food-borne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada, 255 Woodlawn Road West, Unit 120, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1H 8J1
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- Centre for Food-borne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada, 255 Woodlawn Road West, Unit 120, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1H 8J1
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- Centre for Food-borne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada, 255 Woodlawn Road West, Unit 120, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1H 8J1
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- Centre for Food-borne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada, 255 Woodlawn Road West, Unit 120, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1H 8J1
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- Centre for Food-borne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada, 255 Woodlawn Road West, Unit 120, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1H 8J1
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- Centre for Food-borne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada, 255 Woodlawn Road West, Unit 120, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1H 8J1
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- Centre for Food-borne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada, 255 Woodlawn Road West, Unit 120, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1H 8J1
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Majowicz SE, Hammond D, Dubin JA, Diplock KJ, Jones-Bitton A, Rebellato S, Leatherdale ST. A longitudinal evaluation of food safety knowledge and attitudes among Ontario high school students following a food handler training program. Food Control 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2017.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Majowicz SE, Jung JKH, Courtney SM, Harrington DW. Exploring the Concern about Food Allergies among Secondary School and University Students in Ontario, Canada: A Descriptive Analysis. J Allergy (Cairo) 2017; 2017:2051916. [PMID: 28592973 PMCID: PMC5448059 DOI: 10.1155/2017/2051916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2017] [Accepted: 04/16/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Our objective was to explore the perceived risk of food allergies among students in Ontario, Canada. We analyzed blinding questions ("I am concerned about food allergies"; "food allergies are currently a big threat to my health") from three existing food safety surveys, given to high school and university undergraduate students (n = 3,451) circa February 2015, using descriptive analysis, and explored how concern related to demographics and self-reported cooking ability using linear regression. Overall, high school students were neutral in their concern, although Food and Nutrition students specifically were significantly less concerned (p = 0.002) than high school students overall. University undergraduates were moderately unconcerned about food allergies. Concern was highest in younger students, decreasing between 13 and 18 years of age and plateauing between 19 and 23 years. Among students aged 13-18 years, concern was higher among those who worked or volunteered in a daycare and who had previously taken a food preparation course. Among students aged 19-23 years, concern was higher among females and those with less advanced cooking abilities. Concern was significantly correlated with perceiving food allergies as a personal threat. This study offers a first exploration of perceived risk of food allergies among this demographic and can guide future, more rigorous assessments.
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- Shannon E. Majowicz
- School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave. West, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1
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- School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave. West, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1
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- School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave. West, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1
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- School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave. West, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1
- Public Health Ontario, Suite 300, 480 University Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 1V2
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Courtney SM, Majowicz SE, Dubin JA. Food safety knowledge of undergraduate students at a Canadian university: results of an online survey. BMC Public Health 2016; 16:1147. [PMID: 27829398 PMCID: PMC5103385 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-016-3818-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2016] [Accepted: 11/03/2016] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Background Foodborne diseases are an important public health issue, and young adults are an important demographic to target with food safety education. Our objective was to assess the food safety knowledge of undergraduate students at a Canadian university, to identify potential areas for such education. Methods In February 2015, we conducted an online survey of 485 undergraduate students at a university in Ontario, Canada. We assessed various food-related factors, including cooking frequency and prior food handling or preparation education. We then modeled the relationship between ‘overall knowledge score’ and the demographic and food skills/cooking experience predictors using multivariable log-binomial regression, to determine factors associated with relatively higher proportions of correct responses. Results Respondents were, on average, 20.5 years old, and the majority (64.8 %) lived off campus. Students cooked from basic ingredients infrequently, with 3 in 4 doing so a few times a year to never. Students averaged 6.2 correct answers to the 11 knowledge questions. Adjusting for other important covariates, older age and being a current food handler were associated with relatively higher knowledge, whereas working/volunteering in a hospital and infrequent cooking were associated with relatively lower knowledge. Males in the Faculty of Science had relatively higher knowledge than females in the Faculty of Science, both of whom had relatively higher knowledge than all students in other Faculties. Among students who had never taken a food preparation course, knowledge increased with self-reported cooking ability; however, among students who had taken such a course, knowledge was highest among those with low self-reported cooking ability. Conclusions Consistent with other similar studies, students in Faculties outside of the Faculty of Science, younger students, and those who cook infrequently could benefit from food safety education. Supporting improved hand hygiene, in particular clarifying hand washing versus hand sanitizing messages, may also be important. Universities can play a role in such education, including as part of preparing students for work or volunteer placements, or as general support for student health and success. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12889-016-3818-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Sarah M Courtney
- School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave. West, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada
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- School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave. West, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada.
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- School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave. West, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada.,Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Brown KM, Diplock KJ, Majowicz SE. The environment in which behaviours are learned: a pilot assessment of high school teaching kitchens as food safety learning environments in Ontario. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016. [DOI: 10.5864/d2016-018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Youth represent a unique audience for consumer food safety education and incorporating such education into existing curricula could facilitate delivery. However, successful delivery may depend, in part, on the facilities in which said training occurs. Since little is known about school teaching kitchen set-ups as related to food safety education, we conducted a pilot assessment of the physical learning environment of four Ontario high school teaching kitchen classrooms. We visited each classroom three times and assessed its characteristics using a modified version of the provincial food premises inspection report. Kitchen layout varied by school, and it was the built classroom characteristic with the greatest potential impact. Several characteristics unique to school teaching kitchens were noted, including whether the classroom teaching area and food preparation area were separated. Despite the variation between classrooms, all had physical characteristics sufficient to meet the minimum requirements for food service premises in Ontario. Nevertheless, this pilot assessment highlights nuanced factors unique to high school teaching kitchen classrooms that may impact the delivery of food safety education and the development of safe food handing behaviours. Findings can support conversations between public health, food safety authorities, and school stakeholders to enhance food safety learning environments in schools.
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- Kristin M. Brown
- School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada
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- School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada
- School of Health and Life Sciences and Community Services, Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Kitchener, Ontario, N2G 4M4, Canada
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- School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada
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