Food safety has become an important food quality attribute within the last decade. In 2002, we conducted a consumer survey with 449 subjects in Kiel to determine actual consumer perceptions to food quality and safety. We compared these data with our former consumer surveys in Kiel. Over the past decade food quality is perceived to have improved. Regarding to food related health risks, the feeli...

Important shifts have occurred over the past twenty years in how food safety experts in government and the private sector think about achieving food safety. These include the increasing use of risk analysis, especially risk assessment, in food safety decision making; a much-expanded focus on microbial hazards in the food supply; and a new emphasis on prevention of foodborne hazards and illnesse...

In order to evaluate the current effectiveness of nutrition and food safety education on the college taekwondo students in China, we analysed the difference of food knowledge, attitudes and practices among the Chinese college taekwondo students on the basis of local fraction algorithm who had or had not have food nutrition and safety education, in order to examine the necessarily of the provisi...

In light of the increasing consumer demand for safe, high-quality food and recent public health concerns about food-borne illness, governments and agricultural industries are under pressure to provide comprehensive food safety policies and programmes consistent with international best practice. Countries that export food commodities derived from livestock must meet both the requirements of the ...

It is the position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that all people should have access to a safe food and water supply. The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics supports science-based food and water regulations and recommendations that are applied consistently across all foods and water regulated by all agencies and incorporate traceability and recall to limit food- and waterborne outbre...

This study begins with the perspective of food safety management and the traceability system of the whole supplying chains, taking the food safety problem of fruits and vegetables as the starting point of the research, combined with the domestic and foreign advanced food safety tracing theory as well as the application of technology, so as to construct food safety tracing system of fruits and v...

This paper gives an overview of Chinese food safety problem during recent seven years and whether the Alternative Agri-food Networks (AAFNs) probably enhance food safety in China mainly in a business perspective. Both economic analysis and empirical results are provided to answer several crucial questions related with Chinese food safety problem.

This study examined the extent of improvement of food safety knowledge and practices of employee through food safety training. Employee knowledge and practice for food safety were evaluated before and after the food safety training program. The training program and questionnaires for evaluating employee knowledge and practices concerning food safety, and a checklist for determining food safety ...