IGNOU MVPP-01 Project – Consumer Food Safety Knowledge and Practices

Every year, millions of people worldwide die and many are hospitalized from food borne diseases and illnesses as a result of consumption of contaminated food (Knight et al., 2003). World governments concentrate their efforts on improving food safety, in order to promptly and properly respond to the increasing types and incidents of food borne diseases. Food-borne infections are placed in the core of primary community health concerns, by both advanced and developing countries of the world (Eren, 2007). While it is hard to predict the actual number of incidents of food-borne diseases, it is a known fact that many lives were lost to diarrhoea caused by food and water-borne microbiological agents, tolling around 1.8 million minors during 1998 and 2.1 million people, during 2000, in the developing world.

Objectives

• The following objectives are formulated for the present study: -
• To analyse the awareness and attitudes of consumers about food safety and its impact on food borne diseases.
• To test the consumers’ confidence level in food safety and quality marks and its relationship with safe and unsafe food.
• To identify the personal hygienic practices and hand washing practices of consumers and its cause and effect in food safety.
• To analyse the existing food safety practices at kitchen and their association with unsafe food. X
• To analyse food adulteration, food safety knowledge, practical experience and its association with the complaint handling practices of consumers.

Topic Covered

• INTRODUCTION
• Introduction
• Review of Literature
• Awareness and Attiudes of Consumers in
• Food Safety and its Impact on Food Borne Diseases
• Consumers’ Confidence Level in Food
• Safety and Quality Marks and its
• Relationship with Safe and Unsafe food
• Personal Hygienic Practices and Hand
• Washing Practices of Consumers and its
• Cause and Effect in Food Safety
• Existing Food Safety Practices in Kitchen
• Food Adulteration, Food Safety
• Knowledge, Practical Experience and its
• Association with the Complaint Handling
• Practices of Consumers
• Conclusions & Suggestion
• Bibliography
• Appendix-Questionnaire