This study aimed to assess the knowledge, attitudes and practices on food-safety of street-vended food sellers in the city of Kon Tum (2018) in order to provide scientific evidence as a basis for deverloping plan to ensure food safety of street food and to protect consumers’ health. Subjects of the study were 160 sellers in 160 street-food vendors. The cross-sectional study was conducted from November 2017 to June 2018. Information was collected through direct interviews and observations. The results showed that: The rate of street-vended food sellers who have (1) good knowledge on food-safety was of 64.4 %, (2) positive attitude was of 45.6 %, and (3) right practices was of 33.1 %. The factors affecting food-safety knowledge were the supervision and inspection of local authorities, and the reaction of sellers (P < 0.05). The factors related to food-safety attitudes were food-safety inspection activities, and food-safety knowledge of the sellers (P < 0.05). The factors affecting food-safety practices were the supervision and inspection of local authorities, and food-safety knowledge of the sellers (P < 0.05).
Objectives: Pesticides is an indispensable need for agricultura production. This study was conducted to describe the status of knowledge and practice on safety using of pesticides among farmers in Dong Thap province in 2020. Methodology: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 442 farmers in Dong Thap province, from March to September 2020. Results: The rate of farmers have known that pesticides can cause human disease and environmental pollution were 81.9% and 45.2%, respectively. 20.1%, 79.2%, and 75.3% were the rate of farmer who know that the pesticide poisoned routes were eating, breathing, skin-mucosal contact. The practical of the farmers such as read the manual, checked the sprayer, mixed the medicine according to the instructions, mixed the medicine in the right place, and used the right dose, that were counted 93.7%, 86.4%, 6.6%, 84.4%, and 97.7%, respectively. The percentage of farmers who had practiced correctly about handling excess pesticides, packaging, cleaning and storing sprayers were 78.5%, 15.4%, 90.5% and 89.4%, respectively. The rate of farmers who had used protective equipment while spraying pesticides ranges from 12.7 to 33.0%. Conclusions: The knowledge and practice on safety using of pesticides among farmers were pretty good. However, some fields have been still limited. The communication should be continued to improve the practical properly on using pesticides. Keywords: pesticide, safety using of pesticides, Dong Thap province
Street food trading helps to meet respond to the needs and satisfy the tastes of consumers. However, they also carry potential health risks, especially foodborne diseases. The cross-sectional study was conducted on 119 street food vendors in Quoc Oai District, Hanoi, Vietnam from February to May 2017. The study aimed to describe the food safety conditions of the street food vendors in Quoc Oai district in 2017 and identified the relevant factors. The study results showed that only 14.3% of the street food sample sold in Quoc Oai district met food safety requirements. Educational, cooking training, and seniority of the vendors, trading locations, the inspection of management agencies are factors which can have influences on the food safety conditions of street food vendors.
Pesticides have taken an important role and they have had popular use in agricultural cultivation. However, that may increase the risk of pesticide residues in agricultural products. Cross-sectional study, using secondary data on monitoring of pesticide residues on the agricultural products in Dong Thap province during 2016-2017. The study was carried out from October to December 2019. The results show in 2016, the percentage of vegetables and fruits in Dong Thap province with pesticide residues was counted as 12.1 % and 5.3 %, respectively; in 2017 were 29.4 % and 5.6 %, respectively. However, the concentration of pesticide residues on vegetable and fruit samples was found to be mostly under the allowable threshold as prescribed by the Ministry of Health. The monitoring of pesticide residues on agricultural products is a necessary activity to improve the quality of agricultural products and the safety of the community's health.
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