Systemic Analysis on Hygiene of Food Catering in Korea (2005-2014)

A systemic review on the factors affecting food catering hygiene was conducted to provide information for risk management of food catering in Korea. In total 47 keywords relating to food catering and food hygiene were searched for published journals in the DBpia for the last decade (2005-2014). As a result, 1,178 published papers were searched and 142 articles were collected by the expert review. To find the major factors affecting food catering and microbial safety, an analysis based on organization and stakeholder were conducted. School catering (64 papers) was a major target rather than industry (5 pagers) or hospitals (3 papers) in the selected articles. The factors affecting school catering were system/facility/equipment (15 papers), hygiene education (12 papers), production/delivery company (6 papers), food materials (4 papers) and any combination of the above factors (9 papers). The major problems are follow. 1) The problems of system/facility/equipment were improper space division/separation, lack of mass cooking utensil, lack of hygiene control equipment, difficulty in temperature and humidity control, and lack of cooperation in the HACCP team (dietitians position), poor hygienic classroom in the case of class dining (students), hard workload/intensity of labor, poor condition of cooks safety (cook's) and lack of parents monitoring activity (parents). 2) The problem of hygiene education were related to formal and perfunctory hygiene education, lack of HACCP education, lack of compliance of hygiene practice (cooks), lack of personal hygiene education and little effect of education (students). 3) The problems of production/delivery company were related to hygiene of delivery truck and temperature control, hygiene of employee in the supplying company and control of non-accredited HACCP company. 4) The area of food materials cited were distrust of safety regarding to raw materials, fresh cut produces, and pre-treated food materials. 5) In addition, job stability/the salary can affect the occupational satisfaction and job commitment. And job stress can affect the performance and the hygiene practice. It is necessary for the government to allocate budget for facility and equipment, conduct field survey, improve hygiene training program and inspection, prepare certification system, improve working condition of employees, and introducing hygiene and layout consulting by experts. The results from this study can be used to prepare education programs and develop technology for improving food catering hygiene and providing information.