The profile of consumers habits and hygiene analysis of the animal based foods form purchasing to consumption period in the cities of Aegean Region
III International Conference on Antimicrobial Research - ICAR2014, Madrid, Spain, 1 - 03 October 2014, pp.113, (Full Text)
- Publication Type: Conference Paper / Full Text
- City: Madrid
- Country: Spain
- Page Numbers: pp.113
- Istanbul University Affiliated: Yes
Abstract
Adequate and correct alimentation is a basic right of human race for mental, pyhsical and physiological development for both individuals and societies. Although the resources of the world have enough potantial to nourish all the population, unfortunately hundreds of millions of human are facing with famine, starvation and lethal diseases. Animal based foods are very important for persons to live a healthy life in many ways. Variables as rapid urbanization, development of tourism sector, growing of the food and aminal trade all over the world, changing food consuming habits and developed production technics and socio-economic conditions cause to increase the incidence of food infections and intoxications and important losses of foods, animals and human beings. Correct and adequate food security system procedures must be applied especially to animal based foods to minimise the risks for consumers’ health. In spite of application of the correct procedures during the production period of the animal based foods, a lot of different variables of the consumers may cause the safe animal based foods to important risk factors.
The purpose of this study is to determine consumption patterns of the public in all the cities of Aegean region (İzmir, Aydın, Muğla, Uşak, Denizli, Manisa, Kütahya, Afyonkarahisar) with regard to foods of animal origin (milk and dairy products, meat and meat products, water products, honey, poultry and poultry products) and to exhibit whether consumption habits (brand choice, whether the product is prepacked or not, how and under which conditions the products are preserved until consumption, why the household members prefer certain products etc.) are effective over the microbiological quality of the foods of animal origin and to put forward these relationships in statistical modelling in order to show the correlation among consumption habits, product hygiene and public health. A total of 1600 households have been visited and to each household, 73 questions in 6 different categories have been asked. From each household, one relevant food product has been taken and the collected samples have been analysed with regard to 10 different microbiological parameters. According to the results, it has been determined that in Aegean region, the individual demographic variables and consumption habits of foods of animal origin of the consumers are closely related to the hygiene of the products they consume.