Role of ethnographic research for assessing behavior of employees during cleaning and sanitation in food preparation areas

Development and Evaluation of an Online Food Safety Course for Artisan Cheesemakers in the United States

“…These results were similar to those of some other food safety studies in which there were no significant knowledge gains due to an intervention (14,25,26,32). This finding may be attributed to learners' tendency to overestimate their self-perceived knowledge of food safety procedures because of optimistic bias or social (peer) desirability to comply when they self-report (7,34,35). Selfperceived knowledge results also could have been affected by the relatively small sample size, as indicated by the large SDs for the mean scores.…”

Food safety knowledge and awareness of food handlers in school feeding programmes in Mpumalanga, South Africa

“…This is a rather unfortunate practice and may be attributed to a general lack of adequate knowledge by food handlers about the microbial hazard of cross-contamination due to inappropriate food handling practices (Woh et al, 2016). Food handlers with limited microbial hazard awareness would likely not to understand why and how to use sanitizers or would not use it all (Crandall et al, 2016).…”

Foodborne zoonoses control in low- and middle-income countries: Identifying aspects of interventions relevant to traditional markets which act as hurdles when mitigating disease transmission

“…Improving food safety intervention design through an understanding of context and use of participatory methods Contextual consideration is potentially missing in some interventional design, through the increased acknowledgment of the need to develop multi-disciplinary teams with a strong representation from the social sciences, will continue to enhance intervention design, implementation, and evaluation (Ngwili et al, 2021;Di Prima et al, 2022). Qualitative studies drawing on ethnographic methodologies are an important yet underutilized method when it comes to fully understand the behavioral context within which interventions are designed (Bardosh et al, 2014;Crandall et al, 2016;Nordhagen et al, 2022), and such studies can be supplemented by contextual analysis through systematic literature reviews (Nordhagen et al, 2022), structured surveys, or direct observations (Lee et al, 2022). Ethnographic methods can also be applied to understand why interventions fail to yield improvements, such as in the case of understanding community norms and beliefs on latrine use in light of a disappointing uptake of a community led total sanitation program in Zambia aiming to reduce exposure to T. solium (Bulaya et al, 2015;Thys et al, 2015).…”