Child Health Improvement through Implementation of Food Safety Model
Abstract: Food is the most
important basic human need, in which it’s fulfillment becomes major component
of human right to embody qualified human resources in Indonesia. However, there
have been some problems to embody it, such as food safety problem with
percentage of foodborne ilness case that remains high. This study aimed to
analyze the situation of Street Food for School Children (SFSC) safety practice
nowadays and select the most effective and efficient food safety model
alternative implemented on Micro and Small Enterprises (MSE) in order to
improve food safety performance, so child health improvement may occur. This
study was conducted in the second quarter until the early third quarter of 2015
through field survey and expert survey by taking case study in elementary school
environment. Field survey involved 102 respondents was conducted to enable
situational analysis and expert survey was conducted to select the most
effective and efficient food safety model implemented in SFSC MSE with
Analytical Hierarchy Process. Field survey results showed 91% school child
respondents ever suffered from health disorders after consuming SFSC. Moreover,
100% SFSC MSE respondents did not wear masks nor gloves before producing
food/beverage, 62% still used nearby well water as water source for SFSC
production and 86% used Food Additives. Expert survey results showed Five Keys
to Safer Food model selected as the most effective and efficient food safety
model implemented in SFSC MSE.
Keywords: Food safety model;
street food for school children; micro and small enterprises; street food
Author: Arief Safari, Machfud,
Eriyatno, Heny Kuswanti Daryanto
Journal Code: jpkesmasgg160020
