Food Handling Behaviors Associated with Reported Acute Gastrointestinal Disease That May Have Been Caused by Food

Journal of Food Protection
Yujuan ChenJiajia Dai

Abstract

Family food handling by women plays a key role in the risk of foodborne acute gastroenteritis. Nevertheless, the data indicating the association between women's food handling and foodborne disease has not been reported in the People's Republic of China. The purpose of this study was to determinate the status of food handling for women and the association between food handling behaviors and foodborne acute gastroenteritis. A cross-sectional survey was conducted from 1 September 2015 to 30 August 2016 in Anhui Province, China. Data on foodborne disease and food handling was collected via a questionnaire. Of the 630 respondents included in the study, 99 (16.0%) reported having experienced symptoms in the past 4 weeks of acute gastroenteritis that may have been caused by food. The following behaviors were prevalent in respondents: (i) infrequently boiling kitchen utensils to disinfect (70.6%); (ii) infrequently heating cooked food purchased from outside the home (64.3%); (iii) infrequently storing leftovers in the refrigerator (38.6%); and (iv) often purchasing stale raw vegetables, meat, and other ingredients (23.3%). Urban and rural respondents differed significantly in their answers to the food handling questions. Foodborne acut...Continue Reading

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