Is there need to augment the food safety knowledge, safe handling practices and purchasing behaviour among medical students Sharma Parul1,*, Srivastava Kajal2, Banerjee A.3, Shaili Vyas4 1Profesor, Dept. of Community Medicine, Dr. D.Y. Patil Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra 2Associate Professor, Dept. of Community Medicine, Dr. D.Y. Patil Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra 3Profesor, Dept. of Community Medicine, Dr. D.Y. Patil Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra 4Associate Professor, Himalayan Institute of Medical Science, Uttarakhand, India *Corresponding Author: Email: kajal.spm@gmail.com
Online published on 14 January, 2019. Abstract Introduction Ascertaining food safety knowledge, attitude and practice of students have high importance because this eventually will lead to more food-conscious society and more healthy people. Only a handful of studies have been done to evaluate food safety practices among medical students. Aim and Objectives To assess knowledge, attitude and practices regarding food safety practices among medical students.2 To impart health education regarding correct food safety practices to the medical students. Materials and Methods A total of 100 students were covered after verbal consent. Information was collected on a pre-tested and pre-designed questionnaire on knowledge, safe handling and purchasing practices pertaining to safe food handling. Results Majority (59%) had good knowledge on food safety practices, greater number had poor purchasing power behaviour and none scored good son safe handling practices score. Conclusion 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 knowledge. Top Keywords Food safety, Knowledge, Medical students. Top |