민간단체 소속 자원봉사자의 식품안전에 대한 인식 및 관련 교육에 대한 요구

Perception on food safety and demand for related education among volunteers from private organization

The present study aimed to investigate the perception on food safety and the demand for related education among volunteers from private organization. The subjects were a total of 149 volunteers of private organization in Chungbuk area. The subjects with experience of being trained for food safety (46.3%) were less than the subject without such experience (53.7%), and only a few cases were formal offline-based training in safety-related organizations. The interest, trust, knowledge, and behavior score of the subjects were a moderate level (3.5 out of 5 points, 3.3 out of 5 points, 14.1 out of 20 points, 20.8 out of 30 points, respectively). The subjects perceived the ease of obtaining food safety-related information as below moderate level (2.9 out of 5 points). The demand of subjects for the food-safety related education on food safety was scored to 4.0 out of 5 points, and the score of the subjects with experience of food safety training (4.3 points) was higher than that of the subjects without such experience (3.8 points) (p<0.01). The present study suggest that effective education programs on food safety need to be developed and offered to volunteers of private organization in order to improve their understandings on food safety.