Foodborne illnesses may be related to many food production factors with home practices of consumers playing an important role in food safety. Consumer behavior for handling food leftovers has been studied, however little work on comparisons among countries has been published. The objective of this study was to investigate home food leftover practices of people from North American, South America...

Data was collected from food vendors in a poor resource community in Ghana, which showed that the vendors constituted an important source of oro-faecal transmission. Following this, the WHO five keys of safer food were utilized in an evidence based training programme for the vendors to improve their food handling practices. Impact assessment of the food safety training showed that 67.6% of the ...

Problems dealing with legal regulations of food waste handling are an acute sphere for the Russian Federation. Foods expiring period and losses can contaminate environment harmful dangerous substances, which they exude, get into near-by springs, rivers arable fields. Water from contaminated as well bread cultivated on such fields be consumed by peoples living in surrounding villages towns, ruin...

Solid waste management is challenging in Phnom Penh city, Capital of Cambodia. The only one formal treatment taken is the final disposal of mixed waste into an open dumpsite. The current study analyses the physical and chemical characteristics of municipal solid waste disposed of in the dumpsite to assess their suitable handling methods. The current study found that the major compositions of wa...

The Victorian Department of Health Food Safety has responded to the findings released in the VCEC1 report on the burden to business of food regulation in this state. From 1 July 2010 the Food Act will introduce a new classification system. There will be four classes of food premises, and the aim of this system is to allow regulation to be better matched to the level of food safety risk which ea...

A survey was undertaken in an urban community to examine the intrafamilial epidemiology of toxoplasma infection and its relation to a set of environmental variables. Statistically significant relations were found with (a) ownership of a dog or cat; (b) the handling of pet food, particularly cat food; and (c) a "risk" score compounded from the handling of pet food and lack of cleanliness in the ...

OBJECTIVES To measure the food safety knowledge, attitudes and self-reported practices of high school students in Ontario. METHODS We administered a school-wide paper survey to the student body (n = 2,860) of four Ontario high schools. We developed the survey by selecting questions from existing, validated questionnaires, prioritizing questions that aligned with the Canadian Partnership for C...