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Food safety knowledge among professional food handlers in Slovenia : the results of a nation-wide survey
ID Jevšnik Podlesnik, Mojca (Author), ID Kirbiš, Andrej (Author), ID Grebenc, Stanka (Author), ID Jamnikar Ciglenečki, Urška (Author), ID Ovca, Andrej (Author), ID Kavčič, Matic (Author)

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Abstract
The authors present and discuss the results of a nation-wide survey on food safety knowledge among professional food handlers in Slovenia. The data were collected via a telephone survey using a well-established questionnaire adapted to the Slovenian context. Altogether, 601 respondents from hotels, restaurants, catering, and confectionery units completed the questionnaire. To assess food safety knowledge among food handlers in both general and specific domains, three indexes (a General Knowledge Index, a Personal Knowledge Index, and a Temperature Knowledge Index) were created. Among them, the Temperature Knowledge Index revealed the largest gaps in knowledge. An insufficient transfer of food safety knowledge from managers and chefs to assistant chefs and kitchen assistants in establishments where more persons handle food was evident, while a course titled “Hygiene Minimum” of standardised training from the past still significantly contributes to food safety knowledge. The results suggest a need for improvement in the current system of food safety training courses for professional food handlers in Slovenia. The human factor in the food supply chain still has a significant role in ensuring food safety culture, and therefore must become a more important part of the food safety management system.

Language:English
Keywords:food safety, food handler, knowledge, hygiene
Work type:Article
Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:ZF - Faculty of Health Sciences
VF - Veterinary Faculty
Publication status:Published
Publication version:Version of Record
Year:2023
Number of pages:12 str.
Numbering:Vol. 12, iss. 14, art. 2735
PID:20.500.12556/RUL-152745 This link opens in a new window
UDC:614.31:613
ISSN on article:2304-8158
DOI:10.3390/foods12142735 This link opens in a new window
COBISS.SI-ID:159462915 This link opens in a new window
Publication date in RUL:05.12.2023
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Title:Foods
Shortened title:Foods
Publisher:MDPI
ISSN:2304-8158
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License:CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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Secondary language

Language:Slovenian
Keywords:varnost hrane, skrbnik hrane, znanje, higiena

Projects

Funder:ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
Project number:P4-0092-2020
Name:Zdravje živali, okolje in varna hrana

Funder:ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
Project number:P3-0388-2022
Name:Mehanizmi varovanja zdravja

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