충북지역 주부의 식품 위생 지식 및 행동 평가

Food Safety Knowledge and Behaviors of Housewives in Chungbuk Province Area

The purpose of this study was to evaluate food safety knowledge and behaviors of housewives in Chungbuk province areas : and examine relationships between knowledge and behaviors, Results of this study showed respondents reported a satisfactory level of food safety knowledge(correct rate 78.59%). Respondents were most knowledgeable about 'food production & holding(80.5%)' and least knowledgeable about 'food poisoning(75.4%)'. The performance of food safety behaviors were not satisfactory(3.3). There were areas for improvement on 'I use different chopsticks to eating food, instead of using the cooking chopsticks', 'I sanitize the cutting board daily', 'I wash my hands with soap after cracking eggs', 'I don't use hands to tasting sample foods', 'I use different knives for meats and vegetables', 'I use different cutting boards by food', 'I don't issue frozen item before cooking', 'I don't refreeze thawed food'. The Pearson correlations were calculated between food safety knowledge and behaviors. A weak statistically significant relationship was found between the two variables(r=0.285, p<0.01), The major source of food safety information was TVㆍradio (50.4%). Respondents' perception rate of HACCP symbol was 22.0%.