Visual-based minimal-text food safety training tools for Chinese-speaking food service workers

    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Rajagopal, Lakshman (author), Reynolds, Joel (author), and Li, Dawei (author)
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2019-10
    URL:
    https://joe.org/joe/2019october/tt4.php
    Published:
    Extension Journal, Inc.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: D10989
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Extension
    Journal Title Details:
    57(5)
    Subject Term:
    communication barriers, extension agents, extension education, food safety, information needs, Iowa, USA, posters, training, visual communication, food service, and Chinese
    Notes:
    10 pages., Article # 5TOT4, via online journal., This article describes visual-based minimal-text food safety tools developed in Mandarin Chinese to educate Chinese-speaking food service workers about safe food handling practices. Ten posters and one PowerPoint presentation were developed, and their efficacy in conveying critical food safety messages was tested with Chinese-speaking food service workers in Iowa. Extension educators can use these tools for formal and informal food safety education, thereby contributing to protecting public health.

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