The Role of Chicken Meat Vendors to the Food Security of Pontianak City

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to determine the level of knowledge about food sanitation, the use of good handling techniques, and the impact of this information on the use of good handling practices by chicken meat vendors in Pontianak City's traditional markets. Data were obtained by distributing questionnaires to 40 chicken meat kiosk traders as respondents from 78 traders in five traditional markets in Pontianak City (Flamboyan, Mawar, Kemuning, Dahlia, Teratai and Puring). The data were analyzed using descriptive qualitative and quantitative methods with SPSS 22 software. The results of the identification of food sanitation knowledge and the application of good handling practices have an average respondent response of above 4, meaning that traders have food sanitation knowledge and apply good handling practices. While the effect of food sanitation knowledge on the application of good handling practices, based on the results of the t test that the result is sig 0.00 <0.05, meaning that the higher the trader's knowledge, the higher the application of good handling practices. The conclusion is that traders have food sanitation knowledge and the application of good handling practices but not yet comprehensively and food sanitation knowledge has a positive and significant effect on the application of good handling practices.