Abstract

ABSTRACT:

Hospitality professionals with insufficient food safety knowledge (FSK) poses a major risk to food safety in their respective organisations. This study aims to investigate the level of food safety knowledge of hospitality professionals, as well as the attributes influencing food safety knowledge and their corresponding relationships. A total of 862 hospitality professionals working in hotels, restaurants, cafes, universities and colleges located in two different cities in India participated in a cross-sectional study between July 2022 and August 2022. A self-administered questionnaire consisting of 20 items related to food safety knowledge was used to collect the data. Both descriptive (frequency distribution, central tendency, norms) and inferential statistics (Pearson correlation coefficient) were conducted in this study to investigate the level of food safety knowledge and measure the association between food safety and educational qualification, age, experience and adoption of training related to food safety. The findings of this study contribute to the current literature about mitigating food-borne illnesses through creating a level of knowledge with proper education, experience and training among hospitality professionals.

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Title
Level of food safety knowledge among hospitality professionals: an empirical investigation from India
Author
Patita Paban Mohanty 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Tiwari, Sunil 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Roy, Hiran 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Bhavsar, Rupesh 4 

1  Faculty of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Siksha’ O’ Anusandhan University, Odisha, India 
2  Department of Tourism Studies, School of Business Studies, Central University of Kerala, India 
3  International School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Vancouver, Canada 
4  Department of Food Production, Institute of Hotel Management, MGM University, Maharashtra, India 
Pages
70-81
Publication year
2024
Publication date
Jun 2024
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd.
ISSN
22243534
e-ISSN
24155152
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/22243534.2024.2354938
ProQuest document ID
3067140526
Copyright
© 2024 The Author(s). Co-published by NISC Pty (Ltd) and Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.