In addition to general demographic questions (Table 1), the food safety section of the
spring 2013 Health Risk Behavior Assessment Survey was limited to 24 questions. We
derived most of the questions for the food
safety section of this survey from a subset of
a questionnaire originally developed as a survey instrument by Byrd-Bredbenner and coauthors (2007a); the authors indicated they
used questions from previously reported studies to develop the survey instrument, as well
as developing questions from current educational campaigns by USDA and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The
reader is referred elsewhere for details about
the validation process of the original survey
instrument (Bryd-Bredbenner et al., 2007a).