OBJECTIVES Empirical studies of the association between neighbourhood food environments and individual obesity risk have found mixed results. One possible cause of these mixed findings is the variation in neighbourhood geographic scale used. The purpose of this paper was to examine how various neighbourhood geographic scales affected the estimated relationship between food environments and obes...

An increasing number of people regularly eats lunch away from home, using catering services. In this context, therefore, it is extremely important to improve the meals' quality, remaining faithful to the principles of hygiene, nutritional and organoleptic quality and proper food handling. At the same time, it is necessary to promote food choices, nutritionally correct, by evaluations of appropr...

From production through the intake, food hygiene particularly applies to situations and processes that must be followed from consumption guarantee safety of produced. Food contamination may occur throughout butchering or collecting, manufacturing, storage, distribution, transportation, preparation processes. is described as “all circumstances measures required production, processing, clean, hea...

An input-output model is used to analyze price pass-through effects of a minimum wage increase on prices of the food and kindred products and food-service industries. These sectors employ a disproportionate share of minimum wage workers, but results suggest a $0.50 increase in the present minimum wage would increase food prices less than 1 percent for most of the 12 food and kindred products pr...

Foodborne illness is a significant public health problem in America. The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) launched a national Food Thermometer Education Campaign (FTEC) to educate the public to use food thermometers more regularly. FSIS applied social marketing processes to a portion of its FTEC to identify and move a specific target pop...

OBJECTIVE To assess the geographic distribution of healthy food retailers in Washington State and estimate the number of Washington State residents with restricted availability of healthy food. METHODS Street network service areas were drawn around Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infant, and Children retailers for multiple drive times and walking distances in urban and rural...

The burgeoning development and the rapid growth of the chain restaurants in the Macau fast food industry have attracted much interest in understanding the success of this market. The purpose of this study is to examine service quality in the fast food industry by developing a conceptual framework and measurement scale. Through using a multi-dimensional and hierarchical model as a framework in t...