Food Safety Perceptions and Practices among Smallholder Pork Value Chain Actors in Hung Yen Province, Vietnam

What is it about?

Examining the knowledge, perceptions, and practices regarding food safety, disease, and health risk among selected pork value chain actors (slaughterhouse owners and workers, people living around slaughterhouses, pork sellers, consumers, and veterinary and public health staff)

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Why is it important?

Pork safety is an important public health concern in Vietnam and is a shared responsibility among many actors along the pork value chain. Based on understanding actors' perceptions, and practices, education and training on food safety risks and proper handling are priorities, along with integrated and intensive efforts to improve food safety among pork value chain actors.

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