Abstract
Background: There are still disobedience to the indications of allergic food labeling system in Food Sanitation Act.
Methods: We conducted a survey on 295 food sanitation inspectors and 42 institutions. The survey items are followings: understanding of allergic food labeling system by the inspectors and institutions and how they respond to the system etc.
Results: Thirty nine institutions (92.9%) answered the survey and 8 (20.5%) institutions out of 39 institutions violated allergic food labeling system. Two hundred and five inspectors (69.5%) answered the survey. Around 56.9% of them had the opportunity to have the training related to the food labeling system, and 36.8% of them found the dealt with violation. They understand the purpose of allergic food labeling system and food allergies itself well, however, less than 50% understands them in detail. On the other hand, the intelligibility was low for the food-related business operations to understand the food allergy. For future step 46.2% answered that they should focus more on the training toward food manufacturers and distributors in future.
Conclusions: In food labeling system, food related business operations need more understandings, and inspectors, who should manage them, was also be aware of the system. The enlightenment toward food related business operations is very important and at the same time management side needs to take steps to meet with the problem.
