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- Lange, Maria, et al.
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För lite hemkunskap ökar risken för matförgiftningar
- 2017
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Ingår i: Dagens Nyheter. - Stockholm : AB Dagens nyheter. - 1101-2447. ; Tisdag 15 augusti, s. 6-6
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- DN.DebattRunt 500 000 människor drabbas enligt beräkningar av matförgiftning i Sverige varje år. Bristande hygienkunskaper i hushållen är en av orsakerna. Nu är det dags för en utökad timplan i hemkunskap för att Sverige skall få medvetna konsumenter, minskat matsvinn och färre fall av matförgiftningar, skriver en grupp experter inom området.
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- Marklinder, Ingela, 1959-, et al.
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A Structural Equation Model Demonstrating the Relationship between Food Safety Background, Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviour among Swedish Students
- 2022
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Ingår i: Foods. - : MDPI. - 2304-8158. ; 11:11
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Traditionally, food safety knowledge has been seen as a factor in improving food safety behaviour. However, the relationship between knowledge and behavior is complex. The aim of the present study was to investigate self-reported data from 408 university students regarding food safety background, knowledge, attitudes, and behaviour using Structural Equation Model (SEM) to examine the influence of different factors on food safety behaviour. The SEM was applied to four factors derived from the data: Background, Knowledge, Attitude and Behaviour. The novelty of this current investigation is the inclusion of the Background factor (genus; experience of cooking and handling different food items; experience of a food safety education course; the foremost sources of food safety knowledge). The factors were constructed from variables with sufficient factor loadings and set up in a predetermined structure confirmed to be valid in previous studies. The results, demonstrated as regression coefficients between factors, confirm that the Background factor strongly influenced Knowledge (0.842). The Knowledge factor, in turn, strongly affected Attitude (0.605), while it did not directly affect Behaviour (0.301) in the same way as Attitude. Attitude had a stronger influence on Behaviour (0.438) than Knowledge. Thus, the Attitude factor seemed to play a mediating role between Knowledge and Behaviour. This indicates that students ' attitudes towards the importance of food safety may have an impact on their food safety behavior, which should have implications for the development of food safety education. This warrants further investigation and practical development.
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- Marklinder, Ingela, et al.
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Attitudes Related to Food Safety Behavior Among Students in Sweden
- 2021
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Ingår i: IAFP:s European Symposium on food safety. Virtual meeting 27-28 April 2021.. ; , s. 65-
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Introduction: It has earlir been shown through an online questionnaire performed on 606 students from 24 different Swedish universities that the foremost sources of food safety knowledge were family and friends. However, more than a third of the students had experienced food safety education which was shown to provide knowledge and promoted more optimal food safety behavior.Purpose: Self-reported food safety attitudes, knowledge and behaviour among university students in Sweden were investigated through multivariate path analysis in order to identify factors' influence on behavior.Methods: A nationwide web-based questionnaire targeting university students in Sweden was distributed through social media, email and various university contacts. A structural equation model was applied on statistics from the questionnaire. Four factors: Background, Knowledge, Attitude and Behavior were derived from the data. The factors, built up from variables with sufficient factor loadings were set up in a predetermined structure. The structure was based on whether background affects knowledge and whether knowledge affects behavior and attitude, and whether attitude affects behavior. The structure has been confirmed valid in previous studies done.Results: The factor loadings were ranging from -1 to 1 where the closer to 1 indicates a stronger loading. Background affected knowledge (0.841). Attitude has a stronger influence on the Behavior (0.457) than Knowledge (0.278). However, Knowledge has directly a strong effect on Attitude (0.606). Out of 606 respiondents, 408 answers were deemed usable for the analysis. More than half of the variables have sufficient loadings to their respective factors to be included. The goodness-of-fit indices, indicated that the model had a good fit to the data, and this including hypothesis testing with a significance of < 0.005.Significance: It can be confirmed that background such as attending a food safety education strongly influenced knowledge. Knowledge in turns strongly affects attitudes but it does not directly affect bahavior. Thus, attitudes seemed to have a mediating role between food safety knowledge and behavior.
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- Marklinder, Ingela, 1959-, et al.
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Food safety education makes a difference
- 2018
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Ingår i: Food safety education makes a difference. ; , s. 80-
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Marklinder, Ingela, et al.
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Food safety knowledge, sources thereof and self-reported behaviour among university students in Sweden
- 2020
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Ingår i: Food Control. - : Elsevier. - 0956-7135 .- 1873-7129. ; 113
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- International studies have noted shortcomings in food safety knowledge and behaviour among university students. In general students do not constitute a pronounced risk group but there are wider implications. In a foreseeable future some of them will become pregnant and a majority will be responsible for vulnerable groups in their near environment. A crucial question exists, therefore, about their food safety knowledge and safe food handling practices. The aim of this study is to investigate food safety knowledge, sources thereof and self-reported food safety behavior among university students in Sweden. A quantitative study design using a web-based questionnaire was chosen as the data collection method. The questionnaire was distributed through social media and e-mail. Among the 606 respondents from 24 Swedish universities 80% were 18-30 years and 78% were women. The average number of correct answers on the knowledge questions was 7.61 out of 12 (63.4%). The foremost source of food safety knowledge was "Family and friends" (45%). Just 21.1% reported Food safety education as a source, although 35.6% had experience of a course in food hygiene/safety and/or microbiology. Respondents who reported "Family and friends" to be the foremost food safety source of knowledge also got a significantly lower rate of correct answers. Students who estimated their food safety knowledge to be good also had more correct answers. Experience of food safety education at secondary school/university/working place/polytechnic school significantly correlated with more correct answers on the knowledge questions and indicated a safer self-reported behaviour. Those with fewer correct answers also reported more unfavourable behaviours. The present study indicates that education promotes more optimal behaviors. The authors would suggest a more systematic food safety education at younger ages.
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- Marklinder, Ingela, 1959-, et al.
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Food safety knowledge, sources thereof and self-reported behaviour among university students in Sweden
- 2020
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Ingår i: Food Control. - : Elsevier. - 0956-7135 .- 1873-7129. ; 113
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- International studies have noted shortcomings in food safety knowledge and behaviour among university students. In general students do not constitute a pronounced risk group but there are wider implications. In a foreseeable future some of them will become pregnant and a majority will be responsible for vulnerable groups in their near environment. A crucial question exists, therefore, about their food safety knowledge and safe food handling practices.The aim of this study is to investigate food safety knowledge, sources thereof and self-reported food safety behavior among university students in Sweden.A quantitative study design using a web-based questionnaire was chosen as the data collection method. The questionnaire was distributed through social media and e-mail.Among the 606 respondents from 24 Swedish universities 80% were 18-30 years and 78% were women. The average number of correct answers on the knowledge questions was 7.61 out of 12 (63.4%). The foremost source of food safety knowledge was "Family and friends" (45%). Just 21.1% reported Food safety education as a source, although 35.6% had experience of a course in food hygiene/safety and/or microbiology. Respondents who reported "Family and friends" to be the foremost food safety source of knowledge also got a significantly lower rate of correct answers. Students who estimated their food safety knowledge to be good also had more correct answers. Experience of food safety education at secondary school/university/working place/polytechnic school significantly correlated with more correct answers on the knowledge questions and indicated a safer self-reported behaviour. Those with fewer correct answers also reported more unfavourable behaviours. The present study indicates that education promotes more optimal behaviors. The authors would suggest a more systematic food safety education at younger ages.
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- Moazzami, Madeleine, et al.
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Large lungworms (Nematoda: Dictyocaulidae) recovered from the European bison may represent a new nematode subspecies
- 2020
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Ingår i: International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife. - : Elsevier BV. - 2213-2244. ; 13, s. 213-220
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although the Dictyocaulus lungworm, the agent of dictyocaulosis, is one of parasitological threats to European bison, its systematic position remains unclear. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the morphological features of the lungworm and the pathological lesions it induces, and to analyse mitochondrial (mt) genetic markers for systematic and molecular epidemiological studies. The morphological findings indicate that Dictyocaulus lungworms of European bison can be distinguished from those of cattle on the basis of differences in buccal capsule wall length, total body length, and spicules length in males, all of which were significantly longer in those of European bison. Nucleotide diversity calculated from pairwise sequence alignments of partial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (cox1), cytochrome B (cytB) and NADH dehydrogenase subunit 5 (nad5) of specimens from cattle and European bison varied from 1.7% for nad5, 2.1% for cytB, to 3.7% for cox1 gene. Thus, among the lungworms of European bison and cattle, nad5 and cytB were the most conserved proteins, whereas coxl was the most diverse. The mt cytB marker gene may be a suitable candidate for distinguishing between the two genotypes, as nad5 demonstrated the greatest within-genus sequence variation. The lung tissue of infected European bison manifests signs of verminous pneumonia characterized by interstitial pneumonia, bronchitis and bronchiolitis. Therefore, it appears that European bison and cattle are infected with slightly diverged, morphologically-different, genotypes of D. viviparus, indicating they belong to two separate worm populations. We propose, therefore, that the lungworm of European bison should be classified as D. viviparus subsp. bisontis.
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- Moazzami, Madeleine, et al.
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Reducing Campylobacter jejuni, Enterobacteriaceae and total aerobic bacteria on transport crates for chickens by irradiation with 265-nm ultraviolet light (UV-C LED)
- 2021
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Ingår i: Food Control. - : Elsevier BV. - 0956-7135 .- 1873-7129. ; 119, s. 572-578
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- It is critical to maintain low levels of microbes in the whole food production chain. Due to high speed of slaughter, lack of time, and structural characteristics of crates, sufficient cleaning and disinfection of crates used for transporting chickens to abattoirs is a challenge. Inadequately cleaned transport crates for broiler chickens caused a major outbreak of campylobacteriosis in Sweden in 2016-2017, when the contaminated crates in-troduced Campylobacter to the chickens during thinning. This study evaluated the antibacterial efficacy of 265nm ultraviolet (UV-C) LED light on artificially contaminated chicken transport crates. In a laboratory study, a transport crate artificially contaminated with Campylobacter and cecum contents was irradiated with 265-nm UV-C light by a continuous LED array in a treatment cabinet. The transport crate was sampled 52 times by cotton swabs before and after UV-C treatment for 1 min (20.4 mJ/cm2) and 3 min (61.2 mJ/cm2). The swab samples were analysed for Campylobacter jejuni (C. jejuni), bacteria belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae, and total aerobic bacteria. After irradiation with UV-C LED light for 1 min, a mean reduction in C. jejuni of log 2.0 +/- 0.5 CFU/mL was observed, while after irradiation for 3 min the reduction was log 3.1 +/- 1.0 CFU/mL. The mean reduction in Enterobacteriaceae was log 1.5 +/- 0.3 CFU/mL after 1 min of irradiation and log 1.8 +/- 0.8 CFU/mL after 3 min. The mean reduction in total aerobic bacteria was log 1.4 +/- 0.4 CFU/mL after 1 min of irradiation and log 1.6 +/- 0.5 CFU/mL after 3 min. Significant reductions in bacterial load were observed in all samples after UV-C treatment and extending the treatment time from 1 to 3 min significantly increased the reduction in C. jejuni. However, before implementation of UV-C LED treatment in commercial chicken abattoirs, the irradiation unit would need to be extended and/or the washing procedure before UV-C treatment, to reduce the amount of organic matter on transport crates, would need to be improved.
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