Evaluation of Food Safety knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) in Poultry slaughterhouses in Khartoum state

Abstract

The study was designed to evaluate food safety knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) in poultry slaughterhouses in Khartoum State (Khartoum, Bahri and Omdurman localities), Sudan. A randomized descriptive cross-sectional study on food safety KAP was conducted among a total of 180 respondents (60 for each locality). Anon-probability multistage clusters sampling method was used.The results revealed that 100.0% of workers said true for using gloves, washing hands, cyclical medical checkup and clearing equipment. Whereas, the respondents in 3 localities (20.0%, 43.3%, and 20.3%) don’t aware of chilling degree and have no idea about important of training (0.0%, 3.4% and 0.0%). While highest percentage of the workers aware for risk of contamination of food through eating and drinking during food processing (100.0%, 96.7% and 94.9%). In conclusion, unclear information on knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) of workers in poultry meat industry may constitute public health concern. Hence, more attention by local authorities is required particularly on the issue of regulations as well as increasing the awareness of the workers.