AN ATTEMPT TO MEASURE FOOD SAFETY STATUS
Abstract
The main objective of this study was to attempt to develop some indicators for measuring the food safety status of a country. A conceptual model was put forth by the investigator. The assumption was that food safety status was multifactorily influenced by medico-health levels, food-nutrition programs, and consumer protection activities. However, all these in turn depended upon socio-economic status of the country. Twenty-six indicators were reviewed and examined. Seventeen were first screened and three were finally selected, by the stepwise multiple regression analysis, to reflect the food safety status. Sixty-one countries/areas were included in this study. The three indicators were life expectancy at birth with multiple correlation coefficient (R2 = 34.62%), adult literacy rate (R2 = 29.66%), and child mortality rate for ages 1-4 (R2 = 9.99%). They showed a cumulative R2 of 57.79%.
Subject Area
Public health
Recommended Citation
YAU, CHING-WAH, "AN ATTEMPT TO MEASURE FOOD SAFETY STATUS" (1985). Texas Medical Center Dissertations (via ProQuest). AAI8601805.
https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/dissertations/AAI8601805