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Consumers’ purchasing habits and food poisoning risk - A portuguese survey
Goncalves, J. C.; Guiné, Raquel P. F.; Djekic, I.; Smigic, NIn the Western countries, despite tight food safety legislation, food poisoning episodes are still quite frequent. According to the European legislation, it is mandatory for all European member states the annual reporting of information on food-borne outbreaks. In Portugal, the National Institute of Health (INSA) notifies each year the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) about the data of the foodborne outbre...
The level of food safety knowledge in food establishments in three European cou...
Smigic, N; Djekic, I; Liz Martins, Margarida; Rocha, Ada; Sidiropoulou, N; Kalogianni, EPThis study was performed with the aim to investigate and compare the level of food safety knowledge among food handlers in three different countries, Serbia, Greece and. Portugal, in different food establishments, namely restaurants, take-away places and catering companies. Total of 377 food handlers were involved in this study with 115 food handlers from Serbia (30.5%), 180 food handlers from Greece (47.7%) an...
Food hygiene practices in different food establishments
Djekic, I; Smigic, N; Kalogianni, EP; Rocha, Ada; Zamioudi, L; Pacheco, RThe aim of this study was to investigate three dimensions of food hygiene in three European cities Belgrade, Thessaloniki and Porto. The first dimension of the survey was to evaluate the level of hygiene in different food establishments supplying food direct to consumers. A total of 91 food businesses were included in the survey with 30 food businesses from Belgrade and Porto, and 31 from Thessaloniki. In paral...