Determinants of self-reported food safety practices among youths

What is it about?

This study examines the level of food safety practices and its determinants among youths in the city of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was carried out among 1178 students at a premier university in the city of Kuala Lumpur using an online questionnaire. We found 61.7% of the respondents had good food safety practices, 89.7% had fair knowledge and slightly less than half of them had positive attitude on food safety. Food safety practices was only associated with respondents' attitudes. No association was found between age, gender, year and field of study with food safety practices. There was also no association between knowledge and food safety practices. These results warrant the need to create greater awareness of food safety practices especially focusing on positive attitudes among Malaysian youths. The use of social media and emerging technology may be used to promulgate the knowledge, attitude and practice among university students on food safety.

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