Knowledge and practice of food safety of establishment owners, food processors, and customers to prevent Covid-19 epidemic at food service businesses in Son La city in 2020

Abstract

The current situation of the Covid-19 epidemic is still complicated, ensuring food safety for food service businesses is extremely necessary. Research and evaluate knowledge and practice on food safety of establishment owners, food processors and customers to prevent Covid-19 epidemic at food service establishments in Son La city in 2020 for found that the results were quite high: over 75 % of owners had knowledge of regulations to ensure food safety in the prevention of Covid-19 epidemic and 100 % were trained in disseminating and guiding epidemic prevention documents. Food processors who have knowledge and practice of regulations on ensuring food safety to prevent Covid-19 have reached a high rate of over 90 %, especially regulations of the Ministry of Health such as wearing masks when working, keep contact distance; wash hands, disinfect properly, and do not gather in large numbers in production facilities. 100 % of customers know about the 5K message. It is necessary to further strengthen the propaganda to ensure food safety to prevent Covid-19 epidemic so that the subjects can better understand the regulations of the Government, the Ministry of Health, departments and branches on ensuring food safety and prevention. Covid-19 and good practice of the above regulations.