... Licensed re-use rights only Behaviour Handwashing Hygiene Food safety Needs assessment Public health Foodborne illnesses, typically caused by bacteria, viruses or chemicals contaminating food or water, pose a significant threat to public health. Each year, an estimated one in every 10...

...Ponts'o Letuka; Jane Nkhebenyane; Oriel Thekisoe Purpose Food safety knowledge and hygienic practices by food handlers play an important role in the prevention of contamination of food prepared. Design/methodology/approach This descriptive survey was conducted in Maseru around the taxi ranks...

... and environmental subdimensions, is used as the theoretical foundation. Design/methodology/approach In this study, price fairness, quarantine and hygiene, and eco-friendliness represent economic, social and environmental CSR, respectively. Amazon Mechanical Turk is used for data collection. The valid number...

... For the determination of hygiene-technical conditions of VM, an observation list that included criteria for estimation of hygiene-technical suitability was made. A total of 51 milk samples were collected in three different seasons. The swabs and the cleaning liquid (eluates) of dispensing nozzles and chambers were also...

...Saniye Bilici; Hande Mortas; Süleyman Köse; Semra Navruz Varli; Büsra Ayhan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the hygiene of laminated menus. Design/methodology/approach The cleanliness of 41 laminated menus from first-class restaurant in Ankara, Turkey, was monitored according...

...) program in restaurants in different cities of Iran. Design/methodology/approach – In total, 58 great chain restaurants were assessed randomly by observation, interview and questionnaires. The main prerequisites for HACCP implementation in questionnaires were as follows: personal hygiene of employees...

...Daniela Borda; Miles R. Thomas; Solveig Langsrud; Kathrin Rychli; Kieran Jordan; Joop van der Roest; Anca Ioana Nicolau Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine how well cooking shows promote safe food handling via TV and to suggest their use for providing good hygiene and good cooking...

... – It was observed that 62 per cent of the schools were classified as average health risk failing to comply with Brazilian legislation on food safety rules. The thematic areas that showed lower percentage of conformity to good manufacturing practices were: hand hygiene (33.9 per cent), pest control (3.4 per cent...

... among youth, in a fun and educational format. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Video games Food safety Hygiene Individual behaviour Middle schools Attitudes Self‐efficacy Intentions Serious games Kitchen Cooking Middle school youth have increasing food preparation...

...Ingela Marklinder; Maria Magnusson; Margaretha Nydahl Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify knowledge gaps in terms of food handling and hygiene among a population in a selected city district. Design/methodology/approach This study is a part of the project Community Health...

.... Originality/value This is a research study to provide information on the effectiveness of lemon juice which is squeezed generally before eating cig kofte, on the presence of the surface flora to strengthen the hygienic quality of the product. Inactivation effect of lemon juice on Salmonella...

...Barbara A. Mullan; Cara L. Wong; Kathleen O'Moore Purpose The purpose of the current paper is to investigate the determinants of hygienic food handling behaviour using the health action process approach (HAPA) and to examine if the volitional components of the model or the addition of past...

...Keshia Naidoo; Denise Lindsay Purpose The aim of this paper is to evaluate the hygiene of surfaces that come into direct contact with the ready to eat dried meat product, biltong, at point‐of‐sale in three different retailers in Johannesburg, South Africa, by investigating the presence...

...M.H.A Agenbag; J.F.R. Lues Purpose As the regulatory authorities for registering, monitoring and controlling milk hygiene, metropolitan municipalities (metros) and district municipalities (DMs) should boast sufficient resources and systems to properly support the compliance of milk...

... two types of woods and one type of plastic were used in this study. Originality/value This article is written with the expertise of the authors and will be of interest to those in the field. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Hardwoods Softwoods Plastics Hygiene Food safety...

...Denise Worsfold Purpose The purpose of this case study was to obtain information on the hygiene standards of food premises using the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2000. Design/methodology/approach Eight local authorities in South Wales were asked to provide the most recent food hygiene...

... decision trees. The detailed format question asked whether: Food safety Meat Cooking Hygiene More than 3 million cases of foodborne illness occur in the United States annually associated with inadequate cooking of animal foods or cross‐contamination from these foods (Medeiros et al...

... of learning about food safety. Originality/value The refrigerator safari is a novel method for the teaching of undergraduate students about food hygiene in the domestic setting and emphasises that consumers have important roles and responsibilities in protecting themselves from food‐borne infection...

... cfu ml^‐1 after preparation of a chicken meal and Meredith et al.(2001) identified that an increase in the number of hygiene violations during the preparation of a meal was matched with an increase in the number of contaminated sites in the kitchen. These studies highlight...

... out 31,050 food preparation and hygiene actions in their workplace. Notational analysis was found to offer little advantage, compared to traditional observation methods. However, this technique did allow tracking of sequential events and was successful in identifying and recording a greater number...