Hand washing compliance among retail food establishment workers in Minnesota

Journal of Food Protection

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2825-2828

  Allwood, Paul B ^a   Jenkins, Timothy ^b   Paulus, Colleen ^a   Johnson, Lars ^c   Hedberg, Craig W ^d  

^a MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b Div Environ Hlth City M   (United States)

^c Border Foods Incorporated   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 10344265962     PISSN: 0362028X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4315/0362-028X-67.12.2825     Document Type: Review

References (21)

1. Bean, N. H., J. S. Goulding, C. Lao, and F. J. Angulo. 1996. Surveillance for foodborne-disease outbreaks - United States, 1988-1992. MMWR CDC Surveill. Summ. 45:1-66.
2. Campbell, M. E., C. E. Gardner, J. J. Dwyer, S. M. Isaacs, P. D. Krueger, and J. Y. Ying. 1998. Effectiveness of public health interventions in food safety: a systematic review. Can. J. Public Health 89:197-202.
3. Clayton, D. A., C. J. Griffith, P. Price, and A. C. Peters. 2002. Food handlers' beliefs and self-reported practices. Int. J. Environ. Health Res. 12:25-39.
4. Cotterchio, M., J. Gunn, T. Coffill, P. Tormey, and M. A. Barry. 1998. Effect of a manager training program on sanitary conditions in restaurants. Public Health Rep. 113:353-358.
5. Curtis, V., and S. Cairncross. 2003. Effect of washing hands with soap on diarrhoea risk in the community: a systematic review. Lancet Infect. Dis. 3:275-281.
6. Drankiewicz, D., and L. Dundes. 2003. Hand washing among female college students. Am. J. Infect. Control 31:67-71.
7. Duse, A. G., M. P. da Silva, and I. Zietsman. 2003. Coping with hygiene in South Africa, a water scarce country. Int. J. Environ. Health Res. 13(Suppl. 1):S95-105.
8. Ebel, B. E., T. D. Koepsell, E. E. Bennett, and F. P. Rivara. 2003. Use of child booster seats in motor vehicles following a community campaign: a controlled trial. JAMA 289:879-884.
9. Guinan, M. E., M. McGuckin-Guinan, and A. Sevareid. 1997. Who washes hands after using the bathroom? Am. J. Infect. Control 25:424-425.
10. Hoque, B. A., D. Mahalanabis, M. J. Alam, and M. S. Islam. 1995. Post-defecation hand washing in Bangladesh: practice and efficiency perspectives. Public Health 109:15-24.
11. Jones, T. F., B. I. Pavlin, B. J. LaFleur, L. A. Ingram, and D. W. Schaffner. 2004. Restaurant inspection scores and foodborne disease. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol10no4/03-0343. htm. Accessed March 2004.
12. Mathias, R. G., R. Sizto, A. Hazlewood, and W. Cocksedge. 1995. The effects of inspection frequency and food handler education on restaurant inspection violations. Can. J. Public Health 86:46-50.
13. Mead, P. S., L. Slutsker, V. Dietz, L. F. McCaig, J. S. Bresee, C. Shapiro, P. M. Griffin, and R. V. Tauxe. 1999. Food-related illness and death in the United States. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 5:607-625.
14. Oteri, T., and E. E. Ekanem. 1989. Food hygiene behaviour among hospital food handlers. Public Health 103:153-159.
15. Sattar, S. A., V. S. Springthorpe, J. Tetro, R. Vashon, and B. Keswick. 2002. Hygienic hand antiseptics: should they not have activity and label claims against viruses? Am. J. Infect. Control. 30:355-372.
16. Sharek, P. J., W. E. Benitz, N. J. Abel, M. J. Freeburn, M. L. Mayer, and D. A. Bergman. 2002. Effect of an evidence-based hand washing policy on hand washing rates and false-positive coagulase negative staphylococcus blood and cerebrospinal fluid culture rates in a level III NICU. J. Perinatol. 22:137-143.
17. Sobel, J., B. Mahon, C. E. Mendoza, D. Passaro, F. Cano, K. Baier, F. Racioppi, L. Hutwagner, and E. Mintz. 1998. Reduction of fecal contamination of street-vended beverages in Guatemala by a simple system for water purification and storage, hand washing, and beverage storage. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 59:380-387.
18. State of Minnesota. 1998. Minnesota Food Code. State of Minnesota, St. Paul.
19. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. 2000. Report of the FDA retail food program database of foodborne illness risk factors. Available at: http://www.cfsan.fda.gov. Accessed January 2004.
20. U.S. Public Health Service. 2001. FDA food code. Food and Drug Administration, Washington, D.C.
21. Weinstein, J., T. Oteri, and E. E. Ekanem. 1991. The clean restaurant, II: employee hygiene. Restaurants Inst. 101:138-139, 142, 144 passim.