• Dr. V.C. Jeyaratha
• Dr. J. Elizabeth Vijaya

Food safety takes vital role in health and wealth of the consumers. To maintain health and wealth of food safety is unavoidable and inevitable to the society. The food handler should take atmost care in preparing the food .This careful preparation avoids death rate. The gap of the study is understood through research survey. The main objectives of the study are to find out the food safety knowledge and practices of consumers based on the main objectives. It is followed by hand wash practices, food handling practices and media advertisement. To get accuracy and reliable information the statistical tools of inferential statistics, chi-square analysis, oneway analysis of variance and correlation techniques are used with the help of SPSS. This thesis has four chapter. The literature survey is collected to know the gap of the main research work. The respondents are classified as age, education, income and marital status of the respondents. Checking the quality marks and complaint about food adulteration are faced by the majority of the students in holy cross home science college. The respondents have high awareness in food borne diseases, cleaning kitchen equipment, unsafe food, checking in quality marks and awareness of food adulteration. In finding out the food adulteration there is no difference among the married and unmarried respondents. All respondents give high importants to hand wash practices and storage of milk in refrigerator. There is a high correlation in between the different variables of mineral water, fruits and vegetables, milk, vegetarian and non-vegetarian. Awareness of food borne diseases, food adulteration and conference level of food safety among the respondents in the age, education, marital status are highly related in this research work.

"FOOD SAFETY KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICES OF HOLY CROSS HOME SCIENCE COLLEGE IN TUTICORIN", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 7, page no.1801-1806, July-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1912240.pdf

"FOOD SAFETY KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICES OF HOLY CROSS HOME SCIENCE COLLEGE IN TUTICORIN", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 7, page no. pp1801-1806, July-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1912240.pdf