Authors : Nilima H. Bhoyar (Tingre) & Anand S Tingre
Page Nos : 283-292
Description :
The issue of food safety has been in public eye as never before. Current socio economic trends influence the food choices and eating behaviours of consumers to enjoy a verity of foods getting themselves expose to pathogens. Various studies are conducted regarding the awareness of food safety knowledge by the consumers, but the studies regarding the awareness of the knowledge of food safety by the food handlers appear negligible and therefore an attempt has been made in the present study to organize the training of food handlers and assess its impact. For the present study 45 food handlers each from Akola and Nagpur working in different food service establishments were randomly selected and their training was organised at two locations namely Patient mess hall of Govt. medical college Akola and Girls hostel hall of Dr. P. D. K. V. Nagpur. From the present study it is concluded that the maximum per cent of food handlers from Nagpur (44.44%) belonged to high impact category. While in respect of Akola (46.67%) maximum trained food handlers fall in medium impact category. This indicates that training has moderate impact and there is still a scope for improvement in food handlers towards food safety knowledge and practices. A higher variability in impact indices of the trained food handlers of Nagpur (12.14%) was observed as compared to that of Akola (10.77%). The results of „Z‟ test indicated that there was not a significant difference in impact of imparted information related to food safety given to the food handlers, through training programs of Nagpur with that of Akola.
