Table 6 Slaughtering workers knowledge and handling practices in Assosa Town, 2018
Characteristics | Frequency n=16 | Percent |
|---|---|---|
Educational status | ||
Illiterate | 1 | 6.25 |
Elementary | 10 | 62.5 |
High school | 5 | 31.25 |
Preparatory | - | - |
College | - | - |
Do you know about food borne disease? | ||
Yes | 11 | 68.75 |
No | 5 | 31.25 |
Have you taken any training on food hygiene and safety? | ||
Yes | 2 | 12.5 |
No | 14 | 87.5 |
Do you work when you have diarrhea? | ||
Yes | 1 | 6.25 |
No | 15 | 93.75 |
Are you examined your health status recently? | ||
Yes | 7 | 43.75 |
No | 9 | 56.25 |
Do you know reason for food contamination? | ||
Yes | 9 | 56.25 |
No | 7 | 43.75 |
Do you believe that food borne disease caused by consumption of meat (raw meat) | ||
Yes | 13 | 81.25 |
No | 3 | 18.75 |
Do you believe that food borne diseases are preventable? | ||
Yes | 13 | 81.25 |
No | 3 | 18.75 |
Do you agree that raw meat can be contaminated through cross contamination with food handlers? | ||
Strongly agree | 8 | 50 |
Agree | 3 | 18.75 |
Strongly disagree | 3 | 18.75 |
No opinion | 2 | 12.5 |
Are insects such as cockroaches and flies might transmit food borne pathogens? | ||
Yes | 13 | 81.25 |
No | 1 | 6.25 |
I don’t know | 2 | 12.5 |
Are you carried out your work with hand glove appropriately during slaughtering? | ||
Yes | 3 | 18.78 |
No | 13 | 81.25 |
Are you wearing gown and a hairnet during slaughtering? | ||
Yes | 12 | 75 |
No | 4 | 25 |
Water source used to wash the carcass in slaughterhouse | ||
Communal distribution | ||
Tap water | ||
Tanker | X | |