1、4500 英文单词， 2.4 万英文字符 ，中文 7500 字 文献出处 ; Omari R , Frempong G . Food safety concerns of fast food consumers in urban Ghana.J. Appetite, 2016, 98:49-54. Food safety concerns of fast food consumers in urban Ghana Rose Omari, Godfred Frempong Abstract In Ghana, out-of-home ready-to-eat foods including fa
2、st food generally have been associated with food safety problems. Notwithstanding, fast food production and consumption are increasing in Ghana and therefore this study sought to determine the food safety issues of importance to consumers and the extent to which they worry about them. First, through
3、 three focus group discussions on consumers personal opinions about food safety issues, some emergent themes were obtained, which were used to construct an open-ended questionnaire administered face-to-face to 425 respondents systematically sampled from 20 fast food restaurants in Accra. Findings sh
4、owed that most fast food consumers were concerned about food hazards such as pesticide residue in vegetables, excessive use of articial avour enhancers and colouring substances, bacterial contamination, migrated harmful substances from plastic packages, and general unhygienic conditions under which
5、food is prepared and sold. Consumers also raised concerns about foodborne diseases such as cholera, typhoid, food poisoning, diarrhoea, bird u and swine u. The logistic regression model showed that being male increased the likelihood of worrying about general food safety issues and excessive use of
6、avour enhancers than in females while being youthful increased the likelihood of being worried about typhoid fever than in older consumers. These ndings imply that consumers in urban Ghana are aware and concerned about current trends of food safety and foodborne disease challenges in the country. Therefore, efforts targeted at improving food safety and reducing incidences of foodborne diseases should not only focus on public awareness creation but should also design more comprehensive
