ANALYSIS OF FOOD SAFETY STANDARDS FOLLOWED BY STREET FOOD VENDORS, RETAILERS, AND HOUSEHOLD WOMEN IN TIRUPATI OF CHITTOR DISTRICT
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2015
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ACHARYA N.G. RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, GUNTUR
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The present study entitled “ANALYSIS WITH REFERENCE TO STREET FOOD VENDORS, RETAILERS, AND HOUSEHOLD WOMEN IN CHITTOR DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH ” has been taken up with the objectives namely viz., to evaluate the food safety standards followed by the fruits, meat and Packaged processed food value chains. The sample for the study consisted of 50 household women, 25 street food vendors and 10 retail food value chains selected through purposivc cum random sampling technique. The study pertains to Chittor district of Andhra Pradesh. Education group categorization indicates that 20 per cent of the household women had qualification up to 9th class, 26 per cent has under gone upto intermediate level while 54 per cent were degree holders. Coming to safety standards 18 per cent of the household women followed low food safety standards, 68per cent followed moderate food safety standards and 14 per cent adopted high food safety standards. A greater percentage of sample household women belonged to OC, category.
Among general requirements (100%) of the selected households possessed electricity connections, 87.3 per cent of women were found to cook daily 3 times and 84.6 per cent women followed the practice of protecting the ready to eat food protected from contamination. Regarding health and hygiene requirements majority (96%) indicated that they were having proper hand washing facilities. Taking into
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consideration of cleaning and sanitation maintenance requirements the majority (98.6%) are mentioned that house toilets were maintained in cleanly condition, followed by 97.3 per cent maintained kitchen in cleanly condition. There was no significant association between opinions given by the sample household women while buying food protected from contamination with respective age groups, education groups, and social groups.
In terms of general requirements street food vendors had 86.6 per cent knowledge on license to run the business, with 42.6 per cent displaying current licence prominently on premises. They were also having 84 per cent knowledge on food protected from contamination at the receiving point , 40 per cent knowledge on food stored in contamination free environment and 37.3 per cent knowledge on methods used to cool food and heating /reheating procedures.
Taking health and hygiene requirements into consideration the respondents were having 81.3 per cent knowledge on ensuring staff members not to engage in food handling if they were suffering from food borne illness or sickness. Among the respondents 74.6 per cent were following cleaning and sanitation maintenance requirements for kitchen. Out of sample respondents of 4 restaurants 50 per cent followed low food safety standards 25 per cent followed moderate food safety standards and again the same per cent followed high food safety standards. Out of the 3 chicken retail outlets 33 per cent each followed low, moderate and high food safety standards. All the 3 selected retail super markets followed moderate food safety standards.
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