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Assessment of Consumer's Food Safety Perceptions and Practices  

Park, Ji-Yeon (Department of Food & Nutrition, Yeungnam University)
Choi, Eun-Hui (Research Institute of Food & Nutritional Sciences, Yonsei University)
Choi, Jung-Hwa (Research Institute of Food & Nutritional Sciences, Yonsei University)
Shim, Sang-Kook (Department of Food Science & Biotechnology, Dongnam Health College)
Park, Hyung-Soo (Department of Food Science & Technology, Chung-Ang University)
Park, Ki-Hwan (Department of Food Science & Technology, Chung-Ang University)
Moon, Hye-Kyung (Department of Food & Nutrition, Changwon National University)
Ryu, Kyung (Department of Food & Nutrition, Yeungnam University)
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Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety / v.24, no.1, 2009 , pp. 1-11 More about this Journal
Abstract
Consumers are very concerned about food safety as the risk with food increased. This study was conducted to evaluate the perceptions and practices of consumers on food safety in order to collect some information for the development of consumer education program. Total 500 consumers were asked to answer for survey constituted with 6 questions of generic information, 4 of food safety perceptions and 8 of food safety practices from June to July, 2006. More than half of respondents (51.8%) were unsatisfied with the food safety management of government while the individual practices on food safety were satisfactory. Especially, most respondents (98.7%) checked the expiration date of food when they purchased and 97% of respondents were washed hands before food preparation. The higher food safety perception, the better food safety practices of consumers. These results suggest that the systematic and continuous educations on food safety hazards and the principles of sanitation management are necessary for safe food handling and perception on food safety.
Keywords
food safety; consumer; perception; practice;
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