Refrigerated food safety awareness and attitude in relation to food borne disease incidences

Abstract

The aim of the present study is to determine awareness and attitude regarding food safety among urban households of Ludhiana district, Punjab. Results revealed that middle age group from (35-45 years), mostly males, with joint families, belonging to service class, mainly postgraduates and above and having family income more than 10 lakhs were found to have good food safety awareness scores. Results also revealed that female respondents had better attitude pertaining to food safety as compared to male respondents. A better attitude towards food safety was found in the respondents who were in middle aged group (35-45 years), from the joint families, belonged to both (business and service) class and having annual family income of more than 10 lakhs. Higher the education qualification better was the attitude of respondents so it clearly reflects that post graduates and graduates were found to have better attitudes towards food safety. Food safety awareness were significantly negatively correlated (p