Investigation on awareness degree and dietary intake of acrylamide among preventive medicine professional undergraduate students

VernacularTitle:预防医学专业本科学生丙烯酰胺知晓度及摄入量调查
Author: Baoning QI ; Juanjuan MENG ; Lijian CHEN ; Zhenhong CHENG ; Qian GAO
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: acrylamide; diet; intake; preventive medicine; education,medical,undergraduate
From: Chongqing Medicine 2014;(11):1357-1358
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To understand the awareness degree and the dietary intake of acrylamide (AA) in food among preventive medicine professional undergraduate students in a university of Xianyang city .Methods 28 kinds of fried and baked food frequently eaten by undergraduates were selected as the respondents .The food-frequency method was adopted to perform the questionnaire in-vestigation on 248 undergraduates sampled from grade 1-5 of preventive medicine professional undergraduate students by the clus-ter sampling .Results More than 38 .71% of the investigated students had never known about the acrylamide ,32 .26% of the inves-tigated students had heard but did not know what it was ,11 .26% students knew about its hazard .The AA dietary intake was about 31 .57 μg/d per person ,and there was no statistical difference in the AA dietary intake between different sexes and grades .Conclu-sion The awareness degree of AA among investigated preventive medicine professional undergraduates is relatively low .Therefore it is necessary to strengthen the publicity and education of the AA-related food safety knowledge .