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Food Washing

Food Washing

Period: April 2006
Question: How often do you wash all food thoroughly before cooking, especially seafood?



Frequency Male
Number(%)
Female
Number(%)
Overall
Number(%)
All of the time 580 (61.3%) 847 (76.9%) 1427 (69.7%)
Most of the time 167 (17.6%) 157 (14.3%) 324 (15.8%)
Some of the time 36 (3.8%) 17 (1.6%) 53 (2.6%)
None of the time 2 (0.2%) 1 (0.1%) 3 (0.1%)
Do not cook food 162 (17.1%) 79 (7.1%) 241 (11.8%)
Total 946 (100.0%) 1 101 (100.0%) 2 047 (100.0%)

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