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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Safe Food"”.
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Safe Food Handling Knowledge and Practices of Street Food Vendors at Louis Trichardt Makhado Local Municipality, South Africa
Street-food vendors are an important component of the food supply chain; however, they have been implicated in the spreading of foodborne diseases. Street food often poses a risk to the health of consumers as they are prepared and sold in unhygienic conditions that bring about microbial and …
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Healthcare foodservice workers' perceptions of supervisors' role modeling and enforcement behaviors as related to food safety
Study purpose was to investigate healthcare foodservice employee perceptions of: 1) supervisors' role modeling and enforcement of safe food handling behaviors and 2) supervisors' positive and negative feedback regarding employee work performance. Survey was developed by the researchers, validated …
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Food Safety Education Challenges and Opportunities in Virginia's Food Recovery Organizations
… an estimated 11.1% of households experiencing food insecurity in the U.S. in 2018, meaning that they did not have the adequate resources to access safe, nutritious food at some point in the year. In order to support people experiencing food insecurity and related-hunger, national organizations, …
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To confine or not to confine? : an analysis of the messaging of the proposition 2 campaigns
… for Humane Farms (HSUS) and Californians for SAFE Food (CSF) were the respective proponent and opponent coalitions analyzed in this thesis. The analysis examined sixteen campaign artifacts that were examples of how the proposition was communicated to California's voting populous. In …
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Milking anomie: experiencing food safety on Canadian dairy farms
The developing discipline of Food Crime requires the analysis of food safety responsibility from a critical structural perspective. Analyzing the Canadian dairy industry, this project seeks to answer how the legal definition of food safety impacts the production practices of farmers, and where …
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An Examination of Food Handling Practices at Food Pantries
The latest edition of the Food and Drug Administration's Model Food Code provides the definition of an acceptable donated food item but does not specify any safe storage or handling standards for these items. Virginia has not adopted this edition, but its own food handling regulations provide …
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Non-Chemical Insecticidal Textiles
… insecticidal textiles were created by binding safe, food-grade diatomaceous earth to fabrics with three different structures including: a 100% polypropylene 200 holes per inch mosquito netting, a 100% cotton terry cloth, and a knit fabric of unknown fiber content with an unusual texture on one …
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Food safety knowledge and safe practice attitudes of employees in fine dining and quick service restaurants
The foodservice industry has a responsibility to provide safe food to all customers. Food safety and foodborne illness (FBI) prevention, therefore, have become a primary concern in the foodservice industry. The first step in this food safety chain is employee awareness of food safety procedures to …
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Improving Food Allergen Management in Small Food Service Businesses serving Loose Food
Food allergens, a concern for an increasing number of people, are common food ingredients found in most kitchens. For the majority of the population these ingredients are harmless yet for about 2% of the global adult population, these ingredients pose a health risk and at times could also be life …
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FOOD INSECURITY AS A MEDIATOR BETWEEN TOTAL HOUSEHOLD INCOME AND SELF-REPORTED OBESITY IN ADULTS ACROSS BRAZILIAN REGIONS: AN ANALYTICAL CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY OF 2013 AND 2019
… pivotal role in shaping the access to enough and safe food. This thesis’s objective is to understand whether food insecurity is a mediator among the relationship between total household income and obesity. To investigate that, multivariable logistic regressions were conducted using datasets from …
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Assessment of Educational Needs and Current Practices of Front-line Grocery Employees in the Deli and Bakery
… and prepare an increasing amount of ready-to-eat foods. This increases the need for a detailed, effective food safety training program in retail grocery establishments to prevent food borne illness. This research examines food safety knowledge, training preferences, needs, and current practices of …
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Assessment of Current Guidelines for Culinary Preparation Methods of Fish and Shellfish
… shellfish raw or undercooked, which can cause foodborne illness due to product contamination or unsafe handling by the consumer. In order to be considered safe for consumption, intact fish and shellfish should be prepared to an internal temperature of 63"C, according to the 2009 FDA Food Code, …
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Determination of farm animal exposure to multiple mycotoxins and assessment of novel mycotoxin binders
… fungi, represents a huge concern for global food security in terms of feeding the world's growing population with sufficient and safe food. Not only do they reduce crop yield and quality, but also produce vast number of mycotoxins, which pose serious adverse health effects in human and …
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Development, assessment and optimisation of meat systems for the aging consumer through processing and packaging modification
… the way we perceive flavours, but the way we see food and the manner in which we handle food. The studies reported in this thesis examined the effects of sensory decline across a wide age cohort using different meat products. The thesis falls under two parts. Part 1 focused on the food aspect of …
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The Fox Guarding the Henhouse: Coregulation and Consumer Protection in Food Safety, 1946 – 2002
… regulators can agree that inspections of food and consumer goods constitute a valuable and even “essential” task of governments. Nevertheless, these groups frequently disagree on what “inspection” means, who should carry it out, and how they should accomplish that goal. When American …
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Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning for the Risk-Based Management of Agricultural Supply Chains
Safe, healthy and resilient food supply chains are essential to ensuring the livelihood and well-being of humans and societies, as well as local and global economies. However, the ability to provide and sustain access to nutritious and safe food continues to be a major concern and a challenge for …
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Farm-to-table food safety for Colorado produce crops: a web-based approach for promoting good agricultural and handling practices
… have been increasingly associated with cases of foodborne illness (CDC, 2010; FDA, 1998). Direct links of these outbreaks to farms highlights the need to employ strategies to reduce pathogenic microbial contamination of fresh produce at this stage of the food system (Bihn & Gravani, 2006). One …
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The association of food insecurity and disordered eating behaviors among youth and young adults with diabetes: the SEARCH For Diabetes in Youth Study.
… is to examine the relationship between household food insecurity (HFS; i.e., access to nutritionally adequate and safe food) and disordered eating behaviors (i.e., restriction, bingeing, insulin manipulation, etc.) among a sample of youth and young adults with youth-onset type 1 (T1D) or type 2 …
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The Food Safety Knowledge Level of Certified Food Managers Who Attended Two Self-Selected Training Courses
The foodservice industry is dependent on millions of employees daily to ensure proper and safe food handling of food products consumed by the general public. The State of Texas requires food establishments? management or person in charge be trained in food protection. For this inquiry, the …
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Effect of Evaporative Cooling, Fat Content and Food Type on Pathogen Survival during Microwave Cooking
… nature of microwave heating, the microbiological safety of foods prepared in the microwave has been in question for several years. Because foods are heated from the inside out and are strictly governed by their own internal properties such as ionic content, moisture level and specific heat, work …
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