Food safety education is most effective when messages are targeted toward changing behaviors most likely to result in foodborne illness. The five major control factors for pathogens are personal hygiene, adequate cooking, avoiding cross-contamination, keeping food at safe temperatures, and avoiding foods from unsafe sources. Pathogens associated with poor personal hygiene have the highest incid...

Foodborne illness is a significant public health problem in America. The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) launched a national Food Thermometer Education Campaign (FTEC) to educate the public to use food thermometers more regularly. FSIS applied social marketing processes to a portion of its FTEC to identify and move a specific target pop...

road safety is a great subject to engage children and young people. it's a very important subject because everyone uses roads and road danger impacts on everyone. children don't have the same ability to judge distances, speed, and noise direction. therefore, it's really important to ensure that children have a good understanding of basic street safety when they start walking arou...

Background: Ensuring food safety and minimizing risks require coordinated efforts of various institutions. The objective of this study was to determine how Ghanaian consumers score the competence of public institutions in controlling food safety risks and the effects of this perceived score on their level of concerns about food safety risks. Methods: Totally, semi-structured questionnaire admi...

Food borne outbreaks have become a major challenge in food safety, in general, and for safer food supply chains, in particular. In Saudi Arabia, food poisoning is becoming a very important health problem, Salmonella species is the most important pathogen, but due to the extensive effort carried by the health authorities to prevent or eradicate communicable diseases, new pathogens are now emergi...

This study collected data on food workers’ self-reported food safety practices and beliefs about factors that impacted their ability to prepare food safely. Eleven focus groups were conducted with food service workers and managers in which they discussed their current implementation of seven food preparation practices (handwashing, hot holding, etc.), and the factors they believed impacted thei...

background: in order to avoid potential harm of synthetic additives food, development of novel functional foods containing natural ingredients is considered in current years. in this study, inhibitory effect of echinophora platyloba essential oil (eo) on growth of aspergillus flavus was evaluated in culture media and cheese. methods: e. platyloba eo was extracted by hydrodistillation method usi...

hexachlorocyclohexane, an organochlorine insecticide has been used in agriculture and public health programmes since a very long time. it is very resistant to degradation and thus accumulates in the environment for long time. a microbial consortium was developed in our laboratory which could degrade hexachlorocyclohexane very efficiently in water. a study was carried out to understand the biode...