Sex wise comparison of associating factors of knowledge regarding food adulteration in urban Jaipur: A cross-sectional analytic study

— Adulteration of food is an old age problem though out the world. It is a major problem in developing world like India. There are many acts for preventing adulteration of food and consumers are assumed to know their responsibilities regarding food adulteration. So this observational study was conducted to know the awareness status of male and females regarding food adulteration and the factors associating this knowledge in males and females. For this 150 males and 150 females were interrogated and significance of difference in proportion of male and females were inferred by Chi-square test. It was found that only 10% subjects have good knowledge regarding adulteration. On sex wise comparison of this knowledge, 6% males’s scored good marks in comparison to 14% females. So females were having better knowledge than males regarding food adulteration. Association of knowledge score of males was found to be associated with educational qualification, occupation and eating habits are small (p<0.05) whereas in females it was found to associated with monthly family income, educational qualification and occupation are small (p<0.05). So demographic variables which have statistically significant association with knowledge regarding food adulteration and consumer protection were more of less similar in males and females i.e. Educational qualification and occupation. In Females monthly income whereas in males eating habits was addition associated factor found to be associated with knowledge food adulteration and consumer protection.