Effects of Food Safety Management Support of Center for Children’s Foodservice Management on Foodservice Facilities for Children in Busan Area

A Study of Food Safety Knowledge for Sustainable Foodservice Management of Childcare Centers in South Korea Using Importance–Performance Analysis

“…The question of ‘Keeping preserved meals (at least 100 g of each menu) for 144 h with −18 °C or less’ was found to have high importance and low performance (improvement efforts should be concentrate here) scores in the groups with >10 year and 5~10 years of work duration. Kim et al [ 5 ] reported that the effects of food safety management support CCFSM. They examined the status of hygiene and safety practices of childcare centers with 50~<100 enrolled children and those with <50 enrolled children.…”

“…The majority of childcare centers have difficulties in operating proper nutrition and hygiene management for children. There are several research reported on the poor-quality food service from the lack of registered cooks [ 2 ], deficient recognition of sanitary management [ 3 ], and lack of necessary food service facilities and equipment [ 4 , 5 ]. Because of these problems and social requirements, The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety enacted the “Special act on Food Safety Management for Children” in 2008 and is operating a Center for Children’s Food Service Management (CCFSM), which supports the foodservice management of hygiene, safety, and nutrition provided by childcare centers without a registered dietitian.…”

“…The main roles of the Center for Children’s Food Service Management are regularly visiting those childcare centers to guide sanitary and nutrition foodservice management, educate children, parents, employees, provide menu and recipes, and the provision of information and education programs that are related to foodservice [ 6 ]. These efforts are showing positive results through quite a few studies, such as the improvement of children’s diet behaviors [ 7 ] and positive effects of a periodic visiting on education programs for employees and parents of sanitary and safety management [ 5 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 ]. The importance–performance analysis (IPA) has been developed for measuring the elements of marketing programs because of a simple and easy understanding technique [ 12 , 13 ].…”