Assessment of Food Safety Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices among Abattoir and Butcher Shops Workers in Alfasher City, North Darfur State, Sudan

Abstract

A cross-sectional survey design was conducted among Al flasher abattoir and butcher shops in Al flasher city, North Darfur state, Sudan, and this assessment survey was carried out from January to March 2021 to assess current overall hygienic conditions in abattoir and butcher shops and to evaluate food safety knowledge of workers of abattoir and butcher shops. A structured questionnaire was adopted from previous published research articles in order to meet the objective of this study. One hundred and twenty of workers (n=120) were interviewed by using structured questionnaire with 100% response rate. Through which results were illustrated that more than 69% of the sample of the study (n=120) was below secondary level, indicating that they were not recognized by proper health behavior, applying and its importance in meat quality in abattoir and butchers shops. Abattoir and butcher shops workers 81.7% were trained on food and meat hygiene during their work time, and 41.7% of the respondents who work in the Alfaher slaughterhouse known other zoonotic disease like Tuberculosis, Hyatidosis etc. than those mentioned in the questionnaire such as Brucellosis and Anthrax. As revealed in the result of knowledge data analysis using multiple comparisons test in ANOVA, the findings apparent that there is a significant differences between the answers of the Illiteracy and the secondary only based on the level of significant ( 0.024), which less than 5% (p-value). Recommended that future research should focus on the determination of KAP and the level of compliance with slaughterhouse and butcher shops laws in both licensed and unlicensed abattoir across the State. In conclusion, abattoir and butcher shops workers had unsatisfactory knowledge mainly on foodborne diseases, time temperature control.