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Abstract
Schoolchildren are tomorrow’s leaders, workers and parents. Students should be thoroughly aware of the safety issues that affect the food hygiene and teachers should be prepared to summarize the issues in their classes. The influence of teachers in food hygienic habits augments that of parents and other family members. Consequently, this work aimed to assess food hygiene knowledge, attitude and practices among schoolchildren and their teachers in Alexandria. To fulfil this objective, a multi stage stratified random sampling technique was used. In the first stage, one educational district in Alexandria was randomly selected and this was the middle district. In the second stage, 17 of the schools of this district was selected. In the third stage, the required number of students (570) and teachers (930) were randomly selected by proportional allocation. Data was collected through interview questionnaire was consisting of 4 parts, included personal information, level of knowledge, level of attitude, level of practice. The results of the present study revealed that: 1- About two-third (62.5) of the sampled students showed a poor level of overall knowledge, one-third (33.0) showed a fair level of overall knowledge and only 4.5highest mean score percentage was found regarding personal hygiene knowledge 68.42:t12.70 and the lowest was for purchasing of food 54.27:t17.74. Differences in knowledge score were found to be statistically significant. 3- Among all sampled students, the responses were generally towards the poor level of knowledge. . 11.1 of private school students showed good overall knowledge compared to 1.6 of government. . The highest percentage of good knowledge was found among secondary school students (20.8) with a great wide range between other school categories . 7.6 of female students had good knowledge compared to 1.1 for males. . The highest percentage of good knowledge was found among students with professional fathers (10.3)