Household food safety awareness of selected urban consumers in Jamaica

International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 309-320

  Knight, Peter G ^a   Jackson, Jose C ^b   Bain, Brendan ^b   Eldemire Shearer, Denise ^b  

^a Ministry of Health   (Jamaica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHICKEN; CONSUMER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY PRODUCT; DECISION MAKING; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FISH; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD SAFETY; FREEZING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; JAMAICA; MALE; MEAT; NAUSEA; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; PURCHASING; RANDOMIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SANITATION; SHELLFISH; SOCIOECONOMICS; STOMACH PAIN; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THAWING; URBAN AREA; VOMITING;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD POISONING; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; JAMAICA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SAFETY; URBAN POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0038457018     PISSN: 09637486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09637480120092107     Document Type: Article

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