Impact Of Food Safety Awareness On Consumer Health Practices

Abstract

One of the main factors affecting health is food safety and lack of proper safety inspection. It has an impact on people’s chances of living, health, livelihood, and production, and eventually, on the whole of society. Foodborne illnesses are a significant burden and issue for public health across the globe. This study analyze the awareness of customers relates to food safety in selected districts in Tamil Nadu. Basically the emerging risk is identified into three types of risk one is microbiological risk the second one is physical risk and the third is chemical risk. The study aims to focus with the microbiological risk of meat consumption and it highlight with the inclusion of identification with the meat related risk with the knowledge of safe food handling behavior and also indicating the risk  behavior of cross- contamination in uncooked raw meats with their leftovers. The data were surveyed with interviewed face- to-face by a well-structured questionnaire among 150 consumer’s in three selected districts of Tamil Nadu namely Erode and Tirupur. 27 questions under different groups the demographic information of the respondents, cross-contamination, food handling behavior, microbiological risk, food safety hazards, consumer education and consumer attitude and knowledge.  The study illustrate the systematic procedure for handling the meat in retail shop with neat sanitary condition to distribute to the meat to the customers and create the awareness of food safety  and to avoid the food borne disease risk. Bringing the food safely to the home without creating any harm and cook the food thoroughly it will avoid the risk of pathogens, viruses and bacteria.