How useful is food safety/quality knowledge?
The majority of educators, 88%, indicted that food safety/quality knowledge is useful or very useful in their work. When faced with a food safety/quality question that you can’t answer, what do you do? Usual first response. If educators don’t know the answer to a question, they… • Look in UWEX publications – This is the usual first response for 58%, highlighting the nature of questions during the busy home food preservation season. • Search UWEX or UW web pages – A substantial number of educators (23%) search UWEX or UW web pages for information as their first response when they don’t know the answer to a question. Next steps. As a second step, educators tend to … • Look in UWEX publications or on UWEX web pages – 53% of the time • Call Barb – 23% of the time Other strategies include searching Extension resources outside of UW or, less frequently, contacting other Extension specialists or agencies outside of Extension. The last resort for 84% of educators is to tell consumers that the
