Food safety knowledge of undergraduate students at California State University, Fullerton

The purpose of this study was to determine the mean level of food safety knowledge in the target population as well as determine if there were any significant differences in the level of food safety knowledge between students of different demographic sub-groups among undergraduates at CSU Fullerton.;A food safety knowledge questionnaire was administered to college students at Cal State University Fullerton during the spring 2008 semester. The questionnaire issued consisted of 21 food safety questions designed to test knowledge on basic food safety principals and foodborne disease.;The results of this study have some differences with other studies done before it such as a 1996 study by Altekruse, Street, Fein, & Levy found that unsafe food handling practices were reported more often by men, and a 2003 study by Lynch, Elledge, Griffith, and Boatright that found managers with no food safety training had a mean score significantly lower than managers with any kind of training. This study found no significant difference between those particular groups. It is likely that the reason that some of the analyses did not show any significant difference between the means of the sample groups was due to the small sample size and resulting low statistical power of the tests.