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A Survey on the Perception of Food Sanitation Officers Toward the Genetically Modified Foods  

Oh Kyeung Nam (Korea Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Standard Evaluation, Division of Nutritional Evaluation)
Lee Soon Ho (Korea Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Standard Evaluation, Division of Nutritional Evaluation)
Lee Woo Young (Korea Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Standard Evaluation, Division of Nutritional Evaluation)
Park Hye Kyung (Korea Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Standard Evaluation, Division of Nutritional Evaluation)
Park Sun Hee (Korea Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Standard Evaluation, Division of Nutritional Evaluation)
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Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety / v.20, no.1, 2005 , pp. 22-35 More about this Journal
Abstract
A survey was conducted to investigate the perception of food sanitation officers toward the Genetically Modified Foods. They were mainly from Regional Agencies of KFDA, City/Province office, and National quarantine station. Some of them were professors of university and researchers of research institute. Most of respondents had experiences of hearing or reading GM foods (over $95\%$) and over $90\%$ of respondents much needed the label of GM foods. Although some of officers of city/province office and national quarantine station showed less knowledge than other respondent groups, most of respondents had basic knowledge about biology. The frequency of respondents worked over 20 years and worked in the general administration was higher than that of other groups in the question of unsafe of GM foods. The answer frequency of careless treatment of foods was highest in the question of risk factor, and the frequency of GM foods was lowest ($4.4\%$). It was concluded that food sanitation officers had positive opinion about GM foods, but there were some differences in the knowledge among agencies. Therefore, it is necessary more educations and informations are needed for food sanitation officers.
Keywords
survey; perception; genetically modified food; food sanitation officers;
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