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Vol. 12 (3&4) : May-August, 2021 Issue
Evaluation of food safety and hygienic – Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) of vendors at Kukatpally, Hyderabad city post Covid-19.
JAMBAMMA1; G. VISHNU VARDHAN RAO 2; B. ROJA3 and V. SRUJANA4
Department of Processing and Food Engineering, College of Agri. Engi., Kandi, Sangareddy-502285 Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Hyderabad- 500030 (Telangana)
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1Asst. Prof. *(jammuu2011@gmail.com), 2,3 & 4 Res. Scholars
Subject : Food Science, Preservation & Processing, Protectants & Infestation and Post-harvest Technology
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Jambamma, Vishnu Vardhan Rao G., Roja B. and Srujana V. 2021. Evaluation of food safety and hygienic-Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) of vendors at Kukatpally, Hyderabad city post Covid-19. Green Farming Vol. 12(3 & 4):164-170. May- August, 2021

ABSTRACT
This paper presents the street food handler demography, and knowledge, attitude and practices on mostly Clean Street Food Hub guidelines post Covid-19. For the study purpose five type of street food shops (n=60) were selected randomly was assessed for Yes or No questioners. Study shows that the overall mean age of vendors was 35.785±2.702 year are mostly young (58.9%) male (74%) being qualified with higher education (41.7%). But, with 1-3 years (68.3%) experience they had maximum food license (71.7%) and higher income (33.3%>20000 ? 41.2%) for their family livelihood. The survey reported that vendor's response was fair on knowledge for using potable water for food preparation (52%) and wearing clean cloths (50%). Whilst, good attitude of hands wash by soap-water (73-75%), wash raw food before cooking (83%),wash utensils after serving food (80%), wipe hands with wet cloth/wipes (73%), clean and disinfect work station(72% ), takes sick leaves (72%), trained to work hygienically(72%), throw leftover of food at ending(77%) and do not refreeze food (78%). However, food safety practice was fair on personal care (55%), facilities available and environment type (52%), sanitation practice (51%), collection, preparation and washing (56%) and, food handling, leftover disposal and inspection (58%). There was significant association between KAP and all socio-demographic instruments gender, age, education, experience, income and license at p<0.05. However, among shops only chitchat-a dry food vending shop KAP response was significant with Q 11- 4.888a at p= 0.936.
Key words :
Attitude, Covid-19, Food safety & hygienic, Knowledge, KAP, Street vendor.