Food safety knowledge among food service staff in hospitals in Jordan

Osaili, Tareq M.; Obeidat, Bayan A.; Hajeer, Wafaa A.; Al‐Nabulsi, Anas A.

doi:10.1016/j.foodcont.2017.02.057

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“…The results again highlight that, while the respondents had generalized knowledge about the correct temperature for storage, better understanding in terms of how the storage of food items must be done is needed. Similar results have been reported in case of food service staff in Iran [19] as well as in hospitals in Jordan [23]. Table 6 summarizes the reported food handling practices of the food service staff.…”

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confidence: 79%

“…The results indicate that the food service staff in Al Madinah Hospitals understands the concept of cross contamination and how it can be caused, yet there is scope to build their knowledge about its prevention. It also found that food service staff in hospitals in Jordan had sufficient knowledge of the cross-contamination aspect of food safety [23]. Other studies have also explored and concluded similar results in hospitals in Lebanon [24] and Qatar [25].…”

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confidence: 62%

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Evaluating Food Safety Knowledge and Practices among Foodservice Staff in Al Madinah Hospitals, Saudi Arabia

Alqurashi

Priyadarshini

Jaiswal

2019

Safety

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This study examines food safety knowledge and practices of food service staff in Al Madinah hospitals, Saudi Arabia. A total of 163 food service staff participated voluntarily from 10 hospitals across the city of Al Madinah. The participants completed a questionnaire composed of three parts: General characteristics, food safety knowledge, and food safety practices. Results showed that respondents generally had good food safety knowledge with the highest pass rate of 77.9% for knowledge of cross contamination followed by 52.8% for knowledge of food poisoning, and 49.7% of knowledge of food storage. Food safety practices were also strongly observed in the hospitals with a pass rate of 92.6%. Food safety knowledge among the hospital food service staff varied with the level of education, age, and having received food hygiene/safety practices, training while food safety practices had a significant association with the level of education and food hygiene/safety practices training of the staff. Spearman rho coefficient results showed that there was a significant linear relationship between food safety practice and food safety knowledge, and that food safety knowledge significantly predicts food safety practices. This research revealed the importance of education and consistent training of food service staff in improving knowledge and thereby better and safe food handling practices, which could contribute to apply food safety in the hospitals.

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confidence: 79%

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confidence: 62%

Evaluating Food Safety Knowledge and Practices among Foodservice Staff in Al Madinah Hospitals, Saudi Arabia

Alqurashi

Priyadarshini

Jaiswal

2019

Safety

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“…The data obtained from our study indicated that about half of the participants were not aware of 'health problems would affect food safety'. As higher than ours, Osaili et al (2017) have reported that more than 70% of the food service staff, working in hospitals in Jordan were known that sneezing, fever, diarrhea, and smoking during working hours had an impact on food safety. However, there are also studies which have lower results than the current one such as the reports of Jianu and Chis (2012) that mentioned only 31% of the food handlers in Western Romania had knowledge about coughing and/or sneezing might have an effect on food contamination.…”

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confidence: 59%

“…The total food safety knowledge score of respondents' was calculated by summation of the correct answers of the 65 questions included in the seven categories (maximum score is 65). Each correct answer was given 1 point but the incorrect or not sure answer was given 0 points (Osaili et al, 2017). Additionally, the score was converted to a percentage by dividing the total score by the maximum score accessible (score/maximum score*100) and a randomized scoring system was used to assess the level of knowledge (Shafie and Azman, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Thus, increase the comprehensive knowledge of food handlers about food safety and the efficient application of current information in food processing are crucial to maintaining safe food production (Bolton et al, 2008). Many studies have been conducted about the food safety knowledge of food handlers in different countries so far, for instance Brazil (Rebouças et al, 2017;Soares et al, 2012), Malaysia (Sani and Siow, 2014), Vietnam (Samapundo et al, 2016), Ghana (Kunadu et al, 2016), Jordan (Osaili et al, 2017; and Turkey (Baş et al, 2006;Tokuç et al, 2009). In many of these studies' results show that participants had limited knowledge about food safety.…”

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Food safety knowledge of food handlers working in hotel kitchens in Turkey

Tuncer¹,

Akoğlu²

2020

Food Health

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This study was aimed to examine the food safety knowledge of food handlers in hotels' kitchen, to determine existing knowledge gaps in food safety, and to examine relationship between food safety knowledge and some sample characteristics such as gender, age, education level, professional experience, and past attendance to food safety training course. A total of 378 food handlers working in hotel kitchens, located at six different cities in Turkey, participated in the cross-sectional study. The food safety knowledge score of participants was average with 53.70%. Knowledge scores related the different food safety aspects including personal hygiene (53.60%), food hygiene (53.91%), cross contamination (61.13%), health problems that would affect food safety (52.14%), symptoms of foodborne illnesses (52.00%), HACCP (51.00%) and food allergy (50.89%) were found average level. The most striking result of this study is that although the number of employees receiving food safety training is considerably high (82.3%), the food safety knowledge score was found less than expected. When viewed from this aspect, this work is remarkable about examining into content and adequacy of food safety training in Turkey.

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Knowledge, attitudes, and practices on food safety and hygiene of wet and dry fish handlers in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh

Sobuj

Rabby

Rahman

et al. 2022

Food Science & Nutrition

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This study aimed to provide the very first description of the current scenario of knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) concerning the food safety and hygiene subjects among wet fish handlers (WFHs) and dry fish handlers (DFHs) in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Data collection was performed through the application of face‐to‐face interviews with 234 WFHs and 258 DFHs. The overall score of the correct answer assessed components was 55.95% and 57.05% in WFHs and DFHs, respectively. Among the different knowledge categories, both the respondents showed the highest positive response in the time, temperature, and quality control category and the lowest positive responses noted in the foodborne disease occurrence category. For attitudes, obtained results showed positive attitude with a mean score of 37.82 ± 4.28 and 35.58 ± 5.48 for WFHs and DFHs, respectively. The WFHs gained a mean score of 23.08 ± 4.24 for practices, and the score was 22.78 ± 4.47 in the case of DFHs. A positively significant correlation coefficient (rs) was observed among fish handlers' KAP of 0.326–0.584. Although the association between the three levels was acceptable, several food safety principles and hygiene practices remained unsatisfactory. These findings highlighted the need for rapid action to enhance food safety and hygiene KAP through an intensive training program to assure the production of safe fisheries products for human consumption.

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Food safety knowledge among food service staff in hospitals in Jordan

Cited by 47 publications

References 18 publications

Evaluating Food Safety Knowledge and Practices among Foodservice Staff in Al Madinah Hospitals, Saudi Arabia

Evaluating Food Safety Knowledge and Practices among Foodservice Staff in Al Madinah Hospitals, Saudi Arabia

Food safety knowledge of food handlers working in hotel kitchens in Turkey

Knowledge, attitudes, and practices on food safety and hygiene of wet and dry fish handlers in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh

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