Tüketicilerin Alışverişten Sofraya Gıda Güvenliğine Yönelik Tutum ve Davranışları

This study was planned and carried out to investigate consumers' behavior and attitudes toward food safety in any process starting from food purchase through to consumption at home. A questionnaire was conducted with 154 consumers and found that they always pay attention to food safety. Most of the consumers (76,0 %) check when buying food if the packaging is damaged or not. Approxi-mately half of the consumers check if sales counter personnel have clean hands/ nails. It found that 62,3% of consumers buy meat, chicken, fish etc. at the end of their purchases. Most of them do not use refrigerated containers after purchase when transferring it to their homes. Most of the consumers never use food be-yond its expiry date. 87,0% of consumers always wash their hands before star¬ting to prepare a meal. 38,3 % of consumers de-frost frozen meat, chicken, fish etc. at room temperature. Over half of the consumers use a different cutting bo-ard and knife for raw and uncooked food. The consumers are one of the most important parts of the food safety chain when the "From field to table" approach is taken into account. The most important role of consumers in this chain is to be aware of the factors affecting food safety in a negative way and to obey the rules of hygiene and sanitation in all the phases of food delivery, from purchase to consumption.