Food Safety and Hygiene: Strategies for Educating and Informing Consumers
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Quality and Safety".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 April 2026 | Viewed by 360
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food hygiene; food hygiene practice; food safety; food security; food waste management; consumer behaviour; consumer education
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: food safety; food quality; food security; food waste management; consumer behavior
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: food technology and microbiology; pro-, pre- and syn-biotics; food quality management; food waste management; human nutrition
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Food safety is linked to food hygiene, which understood as “conditions and measures necessary for the production, processing, storage and distribution of food designed to ensure a safe, sound, wholesome product fit for human consumption”, and food should not cause harm to a consumer’s health; however, many foodborne diseases continue to be reported in all countries of the world. According to FAO estimates, food containing harmful bacteria, viruses, parasites, or chemical and physical contaminants causes over 200 diseases—from diarrhea to cancer. Given the evident importance of food safety and hygiene in public health, we have decided to publish a Special Issue of Foods entitled “Food Safety and Hygiene: Strategies for Educating and Informing Consumers”. This Special Issue will include a selection of recent research and current review articles about the following topics:
- Food safety and hygiene from the perspective of participants in the food chain, including consumers and producers;
- Factors determining the safety of food prepared in households;
- Governmental and non-governmental organizations’ activities in raising awareness and informing consumers about food safety and hygiene;
- Didactic methods and their effectiveness in educating consumers about food safety and hygiene;
- Possibilities for the use of artificial intelligence in shaping consumers’ food safety and hygiene behavior.
Dr. Marzena Tomaszewska
Prof. Dr. Beata Bilska
Prof. Dr. Danuta Kołożyn-Krajewska
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- food safety
- good hygiene practice
- food-borne illness
- consumer behavior
- educational programs
- food spoilage
- food safety knowledge
- communication methods
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