Food safety: An assessment of knowledge, attitude, and practice toward fast-food operators in Malaysia

Food safety is an important matter that must be emphasized by all fast-food operators in fast-food restaurants. This is due to preventing the occurrence of food-borne illness. Food safety is linked to proper food handling, preparation, and storage. This is to limit the chances of people becoming ill due to foodborne illnesses. It is possible that these fast-food restaurant branches did not practice proper food handling. This research seeks to study the extent of knowledge, attitude, and, practice of fast-food operators. This study further focused on McDonald’s fast-food operators in Malaysia. One-hundred and eighty-one respondents participated in this research project by completing questionnaires given via Google Form. The results showed that the food safety attitude corresponds to the knowledge and practice. On the other side, it also showed that the fast-food operators despite having the knowledge, often fail to practice. Thus, it is important that food safety knowledge is practiced