ABSTRACT: Food safety awareness: Concerns, practices, and openness to change of college students with health and non-health majors - (Food Protection Trends, Vol. 28, No. 7, Pages 585591)
July 31, 2008 – 5:48 pmThe objective was to determine college students food safety awareness, including concerns, food practices, and openness to change. Participants were a convenience sample of thirty health and non-health majors who were upperclassmen with an average age of 21, primarily white non-Hispanic females.
Using focused discussion groups, students food safety knowledge and practices, including food handling, preparation, storage, thermometer use, risky food consumption, and willingness to change undesirable practices, were examined.
Students perceived low risk for foodborne illness, reported that they seldomly used food thermometers, and used color of meat and juices to determine doneness. Non-health majors thawed foods according to undesirable practices observed in the childhood home, most of which are no longer recommended. Perceived and stated barriers to implementing recommended food safety procedures for health and non-health majors included cost, time and convenience.
It is concluded that college students, especially non-health majors, had low food safety awareness and many unsafe food- handling […]
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