Studying the Knowledge of Middle School Students in Khomeinshahr City about Food Stuffs Hygiene

Food stuffs hygiene includes all essential standards and regulations for the pro-duction، storage and supplying of food stuffs to market with high quality. The current study aimed to determine students'' knowledge about food stuffs hygiene among middle schools in Khomeinshahr city. This study was perf-ormed as a cross-sectional fassion on 527 male and female students. Data gathered through questionnaires containing two sections of dem-ographic and knowledge questions. Data were analyzed with SPSS V. 16 software. The mean knowledge score in girls were more than in boys. Also، the knowledge score among students of grade 7 were more than ones of grade 8 and the difference was statistically significant. The knowledge scores were 90 % about suitable drinks، 89% about healthy junk foods، 36% about the methods of preventing food contamination، and 50% about foods with early decay. Most source of infor-mation was related to the mothers with 81. 6% and then health communicators with 58%. Discussion & Increasing the kno-wledge of students، especially among boys should be planned in the fields of personal hy-giene، food stuffs with early spoilage، sym-ptoms of food rancidity، healthy building and maintenance of healthy food and consumption of various types of appropriate foods at sch-ools in the future.