Summary: | 碩士 === 中臺科技大學 === 醫療暨健康產業管理系碩士班 === 103 === Objectives: There are many food safety incidents and adulterate products reported in recent years. It drives the Ministry of Health and Welfare to amend "Food Safety and Sanitation Management Law”. One of the important issues is to focus on food safety inspection. However, the intention of food inspection affects the company’s profit by many internal and external antecedent factors. This study aims to explore the knowledge, perceived risk, perceived benefits and intention of food products inspection in hygiene and safety for assisting the food inspection institute.
Methods: Questionnaire was employed “Likert Scale” and verified by reliability and validity test. Sample subjects were the mandatory industries and participants of domestic food exhibitions from dinning service, manufacturing, wholesale, and production. By using SPSS 17.0, data used descriptive and inferential statistical analysis.
Result: There are significant differences in age, education, position, years of present job and experience in intention of food products inspection for hygiene and safety. The knowledge and perceived benefits show positive correlation to inspection intention. It seems the higher levels of inspection knowledge and perceived benefits have higher inspection intention in hygiene and safety of food products.
Conclusion: In order to protect consumers and reduce food safety incidents, food industries need to produce higher inspection knowledge and preceived benefits during evaluation of food hygiene and safety inspection process.
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