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Food Washing

Food Washing

Period: October 2004
Question: How often do you wash all food thoroughly before cooking, especially seafood?



Frequency Male
Number(%)
Female
Number(%)
Overall
Number(%)
All of the time 670 (67.5%) 848 (77.4%) 1 517 (72.7%)
Most of the time 138 (13.9%) 154 (14.1%) 292 (14.0%)
Some of the time 15 (1.5%) 12 (1.1%) 27 (1.3%)
None of the time 2 (0.2%) 2 (0.1%) 4 (0.2%)
Do not cook food 168 (16.9%) 80 (7.3%) 248 (11.9%)
Total 993 (100.0%) 1 095 (100%) 2 088 (100%)

Note: Add-ups may not be equal to total due to rounding.