Is there need to augment the food safety knowledge, safe handling practices and purchasing behaviour among medical students
Journal Title: Indian Journal of Forensic and Community Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 3
Abstract
Introduction Ascertaining food safety knowledge attitude and practice of students have high importance because this eventually will lead to more foodconscious society and more healthy people Only a handful of studies have been done to evaluate food safety practices among medical studentsAim and Objectives To assess knowledge attitude and practices regarding food safety practices among medical students2To impart health education regarding correct food safety practices to the medical studentsMaterials and Methods A total of 100 students were covered after verbal consent Information was collected on a pretested and predesigned questionnaire on knowledge safe handling and purchasing practices pertaining to safe food handlingResults Majority 59 had good knowledge on food safety practices greater number had poor purchasing power behaviour and none scored good son safe handling practices scoreConclusion The target study highlighted that students with good knowledge scores was only 40 percent majority 77 percent had poor purchasing power scores whereas none of the students had good safe handling techniques knowledgeKeywords Food safety Knowledge Medical students
Authors and Affiliations
Parul Sharma, Kajal Srivastava, A Banerjee, Vyas Shaili
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