...Opeolu M. Ogundele; Sefia T. Muazu; Ajibola B. Oyedeji; Eugénie Kayitesi; Patrick B. Njobeh; Samson A. Oyeyinka Purpose Cassava is a starchy crop with several industrial applications, but it deteriorates very fast after harvest. Refrigeration has been used to extend the storage life of the root...

... locally (U-L). Energy inputs were accounted for processing, packaging, refrigeration, transport, and distribution. Data were collected from available literature and from interviews with key experts in the transformation, packaging, and retail sectors. Energy inputs were computed for 1 kg of finished...

...Ingela Marklinder; Mattias K Eriksson Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the food storage temperature in Swedish household refrigerators, to determine whether students use the best-before-date label to determine food edibility, and to examine if the study increased the students...

...Alberto Vegara; Anna Rita Festino; Pierluigi Di Ciccio; Claudia Costanzo; Luca Pennisi; Adriana Ianieri Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide information on the consumer management of refrigerated food, establish the level and the incidence of bacterial contamination and operating...

... (n=251). The elderly (71‐80+; n=123) were interviewed face to face, while the younger (21‐70 years; n=128) filled in their data on their own. Findings One third of the respondents usually measure the temperature in their refrigerator. However, one third revealed knowledge gaps...

.../methodology/approach The SSC incorporated a refrigerator safari in which students examined a number of domestic refrigerators for factors which might affect adversely the microbiological quality of the food within them as well as determining refrigerator temperatures with a sensitive thermometer. Findings...

... and practice. Design/methodology/approach Principal component analysis (PCA) and hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) were applied to data on food safety knowledge and practice, collected by individual face‐to‐face questionnaires with domestic food preparers (n=1,020) and refrigerator swabs...