Food safety knowledge of food vendors of higher educational institutions in Bauchi state, Nigeria

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0956713519302865?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0956713519302865?via%3Dihub</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2019.06.029" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.foodcont.2019.06.029</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Food safety knowledge of food vendors of higher educational institutions in Bauchi state, Nigeria

Original language description

The aim of this study was to assess the food safety knowledge of food vendors in higher institutions of learning in Bauchi state, Nigeria, and to analyze the effect of socio-economic characteristics and use of information sources on food safety knowledge. To evaluate food safety knowledge, we used 18 questions. The purposive sampling method was applied to select six higher educational institutions and a random sampling method to select 181 food vendors to be interviewed. A questionnaire survey was conducted to collect data in face-to-face interviews. The data was analyzed using Multiple Linear Regression. The regression results showed that increasing age, literacy, and increasing number of years of education, as well as consulting friends/colleagues on food safety, were statistically significant determinants of increasing the food safety knowledge of the food vendors. As both the food handling trainings and information from food inspection institutions did not statistically significantly affect the f

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40101 - Agriculture

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Food Control

ISSN

0956-7135

e-ISSN

1873-7129

Volume of the periodical

106

Issue of the periodical within the volume

N

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

1-15

UT code for WoS article

000482506700041

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85067896916