Table 3.

Food safety practices of OFSP purée handlers before and after training on food safety.

Food Safety Practices Questions	Before Training		After Training
	Correct Answers (%)	Wrong Answers (%)	Correct Answers (%)	Wrong Answers (%)
1) Do you wear jewelry while in the sweetpotato purée processing area?	71.4	28.6	85.7	14.3
2) Do you wear nail polish when handling sweetpotato purée?	92.9	7.1	100.0	0.0
3) Do you touch your skin, nose, and other body parts while handling sweetpotato roots and purée?	71.4	28.6	92.9	7.1
4) Do you smoke and chew while working in the purée processing plant?	78.6	21.4	92.9	7.1
5) Do you use detergent whenever you wash your hands?	85.7	14.3	92.9	7.1
6) Do you wash your hands with soap after visiting the toilet?	78.6	21.4	92.9	7.1
7) Do you wear clean apron, hairnet, and safety shoes while in a purée processing plant?	78.6	21.4	100.0	0.0
8) Do you wash your hands before touching and peeling raw sweetpotato roots?	64.3	35.7	92.9	7.1
9) Do you wash your hands before touching cooked sweetpotato roots?	85.7	14.3	100.0	0.0
10) Do you wash your hands before mashing and packaging the purée?	57.1	42.9	92.9	100.0
11) Do you wipe your hands with your apron?	85.7	14.3	92.9	7.1
12) Do you clean your working area before processing sweetpotato purée?	71.4	28.6	100.0	0.0
13) Do you clean freezers used to store processed and packaged sweetpotato purée?	78.6	21.4	100.0	0.0