The purpose of this study was to determine the knowledge of food safety and hygiene and personal
hygiene practices among 168 meat handlers operating in 11 meat processing units in western Romania.
For this purpose a self-administered, multiple-choice questionnaire was applied, distributed and
completed in MayeJuly 2012. The meat handlers interviewed demonstrate a good level of knowledge,
with a mean score of 10.34 on a scale of zero to 16, together with excellent practices with a mean score of
9.51 on a scale of zero to 12. Identification of microbiological and chemical hazards and hand hygiene,
respectively, are the main deficient knowledge among those surveyed. The knowledge of study participants
was significantly different according to education levels (p < 0.001) and professional training
(p ¼ 0.043) as shown by univariate non-parametric testing. In a similar way, practices differ significantly
with education (p ¼ 0.033) and meat industry professional training (p ¼ 0.013). However, when controlling
for the effect of the other variable, in the General Linear Model (GLM) framework, education is
significant (p ¼ 0.001) only in the case of knowledge and training is significant (p ¼ 0.038) only in the
case of practices. The study shows a significant positive correlation between the level of knowledge and
practices of meat handlers (rs ¼ 0.681, p < 0.001). Although the results show a good level of knowledge
and practices among the meat handlers interviewed, some aspects like identification of risks to food
safety and hand hygiene remain issues that need to be emphasized in training programs in the Romanian
food sector.
The purpose of this study was to determine the knowledge of food safety and hygiene and personalhygiene practices among 168 meat handlers operating in 11 meat processing units in western Romania.For this purpose a self-administered, multiple-choice questionnaire was applied, distributed andcompleted in MayeJuly 2012. The meat handlers interviewed demonstrate a good level of knowledge,with a mean score of 10.34 on a scale of zero to 16, together with excellent practices with a mean score of9.51 on a scale of zero to 12. Identification of microbiological and chemical hazards and hand hygiene,respectively, are the main deficient knowledge among those surveyed. The knowledge of study participantswas significantly different according to education levels (p < 0.001) and professional training(p ¼ 0.043) as shown by univariate non-parametric testing. In a similar way, practices differ significantlywith education (p ¼ 0.033) and meat industry professional training (p ¼ 0.013). However, when controllingfor the effect of the other variable, in the General Linear Model (GLM) framework, education issignificant (p ¼ 0.001) only in the case of knowledge and training is significant (p ¼ 0.038) only in thecase of practices. The study shows a significant positive correlation between the level of knowledge andpractices of meat handlers (rs ¼ 0.681, p < 0.001). Although the results show a good level of knowledgeand practices among the meat handlers interviewed, some aspects like identification of risks to foodsafety and hand hygiene remain issues that need to be emphasized in training programs in the Romanianfood sector.
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