Food Safety Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Consumers Regarding Meat Consumption at Home

Fresh Meat Consumption and Food Safety: Behavior of Belgium Consumers

Recent food safety issues have dramatically changed the meat scene throughout Europe. Consumer reactions are seen as the paramount driving force to change. This paper presents insights in consumer decision-making toward fresh meat and pork consumption in Belgium. It also sets forth implications and recommendations for future pork production given the increasingly stringent safety-related demand...

Food safety knowledge, attitudes and practices of institutional food-handlers in Ghana

BACKGROUND In large scale cooking, food is handled by many individuals, thereby increasing the chances of food contamination due to improper handling. Deliberate or accidental contamination of food during large scale production might endanger the health of consumers, and have very expensive repercussions on a country. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the food safety knowledge, attitude...

Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Regarding animal Bites and Rabies; a Multi-Center Study

Knowledge, attitudes and practices on household food waste: Bases for formulation of a recycling system

This study assessed the knowledge, attitudes and practices on food waste of selected households in the northern province of the Philippines. The results of the assessment were used as bases for formulation of a recycling system. A total of one hundred rural households were selected using stratified equal allocation sampling technique. Data were collected through the use of researcher-made quest...

Food-related lifestyle and health attitudes of Dutch vegetarians, non-vegetarian consumers of meat substitutes, and meat consumers.

The aim was to investigate socio-demographic characteristics, and attitudes to food and health of vegetarians, non-vegetarian consumers of meat substitutes, and meat consumers in The Netherlands. The sample used for this study (participants > or =18 years) was taken from the Dutch National Food Consumption Survey, 1997/1998. Vegetarians (n = 63) and consumers of meat substitutes (n = 39) had si...