Evaluation of knowledge, attitudes and practices of food handlers at Bazaar Ramadhan, Paka, Dungun / Nur Farah Syamimi Manan and Wahida Mohamad Aris

Foodbome illness outbreaks keep on hitting the features in the nation, showing the disappointment of food handlers in providing safe food during food preparation. Thus, this study aimed to determine the level of knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of food safety among the food handlers in Bazaa...

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Main Authors: Manan, Nur Farah Syamimi, Mohamad Aris, Wahida
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Published: 2019
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spelling my-uitm-ir.1044032024-10-03T15:18:24Z Evaluation of knowledge, attitudes and practices of food handlers at Bazaar Ramadhan, Paka, Dungun / Nur Farah Syamimi Manan and Wahida Mohamad Aris 2019 Manan, Nur Farah Syamimi Mohamad Aris, Wahida Quality control Foodbome illness outbreaks keep on hitting the features in the nation, showing the disappointment of food handlers in providing safe food during food preparation. Thus, this study aimed to determine the level of knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of food safety among the food handlers in Bazaar Ramadhan Dungun, Paka. There are always issues regarding the hygienic level among the food handlers that will usually lead to foodbome illness being spread to the consumers. Since there was also a case on food poisoning at the bazaar Ramadan in Paka, it had triggered the researchers to conduct this study. Descriptive analysis was conducted, and this study is a quantitative research. In this study it involved 104 food handlers in total. The food safety KAP among the food handlers were determined by using a questionnaire. The questionnaire consists of four categories which are; Part A: Demographic Profile, Part B: Knowledge of Food Handlers, Part C: Attitude of Food Handlers and Part D: Practices of Food Handlers. The data was analyzed by using SPSS to get the frequency and mean. Result shows was level of knowledge was at acceptable level which 74.13%, meanwhile, both attitudes and practices of food handler are in excellent level which is 94.23% and 75.60% respectively. Based on the results obtained, the level of these three aspects were determined. Despite of all the results obtained from the study, it is vital for all the food handlers to have the knowledge on food safety and are to apply it in their daily life especially when handling food so that they can prevent from any foodbome diseases to occur. 2019 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/104403/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/104403/1/104403.pdf text en public degree Universiti Teknologi MARA, Terengganu Faculty Of Hotel & Tourism Management Abd Shattar, Noristisarah
institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
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language English
advisor Abd Shattar, Noristisarah
topic Quality control
spellingShingle Quality control
Manan, Nur Farah Syamimi
Mohamad Aris, Wahida
Evaluation of knowledge, attitudes and practices of food handlers at Bazaar Ramadhan, Paka, Dungun / Nur Farah Syamimi Manan and Wahida Mohamad Aris
description Foodbome illness outbreaks keep on hitting the features in the nation, showing the disappointment of food handlers in providing safe food during food preparation. Thus, this study aimed to determine the level of knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of food safety among the food handlers in Bazaar Ramadhan Dungun, Paka. There are always issues regarding the hygienic level among the food handlers that will usually lead to foodbome illness being spread to the consumers. Since there was also a case on food poisoning at the bazaar Ramadan in Paka, it had triggered the researchers to conduct this study. Descriptive analysis was conducted, and this study is a quantitative research. In this study it involved 104 food handlers in total. The food safety KAP among the food handlers were determined by using a questionnaire. The questionnaire consists of four categories which are; Part A: Demographic Profile, Part B: Knowledge of Food Handlers, Part C: Attitude of Food Handlers and Part D: Practices of Food Handlers. The data was analyzed by using SPSS to get the frequency and mean. Result shows was level of knowledge was at acceptable level which 74.13%, meanwhile, both attitudes and practices of food handler are in excellent level which is 94.23% and 75.60% respectively. Based on the results obtained, the level of these three aspects were determined. Despite of all the results obtained from the study, it is vital for all the food handlers to have the knowledge on food safety and are to apply it in their daily life especially when handling food so that they can prevent from any foodbome diseases to occur.
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author Manan, Nur Farah Syamimi
Mohamad Aris, Wahida
author_facet Manan, Nur Farah Syamimi
Mohamad Aris, Wahida
author_sort Manan, Nur Farah Syamimi
title Evaluation of knowledge, attitudes and practices of food handlers at Bazaar Ramadhan, Paka, Dungun / Nur Farah Syamimi Manan and Wahida Mohamad Aris
title_short Evaluation of knowledge, attitudes and practices of food handlers at Bazaar Ramadhan, Paka, Dungun / Nur Farah Syamimi Manan and Wahida Mohamad Aris
title_full Evaluation of knowledge, attitudes and practices of food handlers at Bazaar Ramadhan, Paka, Dungun / Nur Farah Syamimi Manan and Wahida Mohamad Aris
title_fullStr Evaluation of knowledge, attitudes and practices of food handlers at Bazaar Ramadhan, Paka, Dungun / Nur Farah Syamimi Manan and Wahida Mohamad Aris
title_full_unstemmed Evaluation of knowledge, attitudes and practices of food handlers at Bazaar Ramadhan, Paka, Dungun / Nur Farah Syamimi Manan and Wahida Mohamad Aris
title_sort evaluation of knowledge, attitudes and practices of food handlers at bazaar ramadhan, paka, dungun / nur farah syamimi manan and wahida mohamad aris
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi MARA, Terengganu
granting_department Faculty Of Hotel & Tourism Management
publishDate 2019
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/104403/1/104403.pdf
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