Food Safety Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of Road-Side Vendors of Ready-To-Eat Grilled Catfish in Awka Metropolis, Anambra State, Nigeria
Abstract
The study was conducted to determine the food safety knowledge, attitude and practices of road-side vendors of ready to eat grilled catfish in Awka metropolis, Anambra state, Nigeria. Cross-sectional survey was adopted in selecting a sample of vendors. This sample was derived from 20 entities randomly selected from four predetermined towns that were considered to have high concentration of these operators. Thereafter, a structured questionnaire comprised of items on socio-demographic factors of vendors, their food safety knowledge, attitude and practices was used in collecting data for the study. The items on food safety knowledge of vendors were adapted from the WHO’s 5-keys to safer food guidelines for food handlers while those on attitude and practices were largely modified versions of relevant items that were available in literature. The food safety knowledge on keep clean (79.4%-95.6%) and cook thoroughly (72.5%-86.8%) were high amongst the 5-key areas analyzed. These vendors had high conformance attitudes (over 70% response rate) at doing well to observe proper cleaning procedure, responsibility to prevent food contamination and spoilage, expired food not to be consumed, reason for observing food hygiene standard being for fear of management/government/regulatory supervisors as well as task performance supervisors’ motivation. Measures to pay concerned attention to hygienic source of catfish and vegetables and cover of wounds with plaster/bandage before preparation of grilled catfish were the only two practices on food safety observed by vendors. However, majority of the road side grilled catfish vendors were females (58.1%) and 63.1% of sample entities being less or 35years of age. Again, 73.8% of these vendors have had some training on food safety with 66.3% having less than 3years experience in catfish grilling while 85% earned income of less or equal to 200,000 naira per month. Training was foun
Keywords
Food Safety
Knowledge
Attitude
Practice
Grilled
Catfish
Vendors
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