Knowledge of Food Safety Among Food Handlers in Barasi Taabaa in Nyo-Khana District, Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria

This study investigated food safety knowledge among food handlers in BarasiTaabaa in Nyokhana District of Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria. The study adopted descriptive research design. The study formulated two research questions to find out thesituation of food safety knowledge and ways of improving food safety knowledge among food handlers in BarasiTaabaa. A structured questionnaire with a reliability coefficient of 0.925 was used to raise data for the study. The data were collated and arranged in frequencydistribution tables. The data were analyzed with the aid of percentage. The study revealed that despite more respondents admitting that they have heard of food safety, majority of them did not know what food safety means as the acknowledge of it among them was low. To this end, the study recommended that food safety educational programmes should be organized for food handlers in the communities. Again, regular inspections should be done on premises that handle food in the communities coupled with allowing only licensed food handlers to do food business in the communities.