| Summary: | Introduction: Health and food safety is one of the most important
issues of nutrition science. The present study aims to examine the knowledge and attitude
towards health and food safety among students of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences,
Tabriz, Iran. Methods: This study was conducted through cross-sectional approach on 300
students of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences who were selected through stratified random
sampling method, using a validated and reliable researcher-made questionnaire. Data were
analyzed by SPSS.Results: More than 50% of students had high attitude and knowledge towards
health and food safety and washing hands before cooking. Further, more than 60% of students
had low attitude on other related items such as unimportance of food additives in food safety.
Besides, more than 50% of students had low knowledge about best temperature to store cooked
food which is between 5 to 65 °C and the most appropriate plastic containers to keep food
healthy. About 87.3% of students had good knowledge about diseases that could be transmitted
through food. That there was a significant relationship between students' attitude and taking
courses related to health and food safety (P = 0.010). There was also a significant
relationship between students' knowledge and their college (P = 0.001) and major (P = 0.020).
Conclusion: Results obtained revealed that students from some colleges and some majors had low
knowledge of health and food safety. It is therefore necessary to hold training programs
through workshops or to include courses in the curriculum of majors that lack such
credits.
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