Abstract
This cross-sectional study is to assess the food safety knowledge, attitude and food handling practices among food handlers of school canteen in Bera district. It is a common scenario for students in Malaysia to have their meals in school canteen within the school area. It is highly critical to investigate thoroughly the hygienic level in the school canteen so that to totally understand the level of risk students are exposed to when having their meals in the canteen. To get such information is fundamental in means to ensure the level of hygiene in the school canteen is at least, acceptable for non-harmful effects to the students. This has motivated the design and execution of this study. In this study, all school canteen in Bera district were evaluated for their level of hygiene. There was a total of 100 food handlers altogether included in the investigation. The KAP level was assessed by giving out properly designed questionnaires to the food handlers. It is important for food handlers to fit themselves with knowledge on good food handling practices. Knowledge and law enforcement, the attitude of the food handlers also is another important factor that may influence the occurrence of foodborne disease. Basically, knowledge, attitude and education, are compulsory to achieve safe food handling practice. Therefore, all these three aspects were taken into consideration in details for this study. Based on the findings, correlations between these aspects were established. Besides, appropriate recommendations to overcome the problems revealed from this study are also provided.
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@proceedings{APCPH-2019-118,
title = {An Assesment of Food Safety Knowledge, Attitude and Food Handling Practices Among Food Handlers in School Canteen at Bera District},
author = {Wan Nadirah Wan Chik},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-07-22},
urldate = {2019-07-22},
journal = {6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Public Health 2019 Proceedings},
issue = {6},
abstract = {This cross-sectional study is to assess the food safety knowledge, attitude and food handling practices among food handlers of school canteen in Bera district. It is a common scenario for students in Malaysia to have their meals in school canteen within the school area. It is highly critical to investigate thoroughly the hygienic level in the school canteen so that to totally understand the level of risk students are exposed to when having their meals in the canteen. To get such information is fundamental in means to ensure the level of hygiene in the school canteen is at least, acceptable for non-harmful effects to the students. This has motivated the design and execution of this study. In this study, all school canteen in Bera district were evaluated for their level of hygiene. There was a total of 100 food handlers altogether included in the investigation. The KAP level was assessed by giving out properly designed questionnaires to the food handlers. It is important for food handlers to fit themselves with knowledge on good food handling practices. Knowledge and law enforcement, the attitude of the food handlers also is another important factor that may influence the occurrence of foodborne disease. Basically, knowledge, attitude and education, are compulsory to achieve safe food handling practice. Therefore, all these three aspects were taken into consideration in details for this study. Based on the findings, correlations between these aspects were established. Besides, appropriate recommendations to overcome the problems revealed from this study are also provided.},
note = {Type: POSTER PRESENTATION; Organisation: Pejabat Kesihatan Daerah Bera},
keywords = {apcph2019, bera, food handlers, food safety, KAP, school canteen},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {proceedings}
}