KAP survey on food safety among customers in Nanjing city

  Objective   To investigate the knowledge, attitude and practice status about food safety among customers in Nanjing city, and to provide scientific basis for carrying on intervention research on food safety.

  Methods   A questionnaire survey was conducted among 1 600 customers from Nanjing.

  Results   The total rate of right answer to food safety was 37.1% for all investigated consumers and all questions, the main sources of information on food safety were radio or TV programs.73.0% of consumers hoped to acquire more food safety knowledge.The higher educational level the customers were, the higher level knowledge about food safety they had.

  Conclusion   The customers in Nanjing had low level food safety knowledge.The attitude to acquire food safety knowledge of the consumers was active, It was necessary to carry on food safety interventions among the customers which help them to obtain more food safety knowledge and get rid of bad habits in their practice.