摘要：In Italy, the Banco Alimentare Onlus manages a network of 8,000 charitable organizations that distribute 67,000 tons of foodstuffs to 16 million needy persons To provide their volunteers with the required food safety knowledge, the Banco Alimentare del Piemonte Onlus commissioned the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d’Aosta to hold training courses in food safety Before and after each session, the participants completed a questionnaire to evaluate their knowledge on the topic of food safety The responses were entered in a dedicated database and analyzed using STATA ver 151 Comparison of the scores for each participant before and after training revealed a considerable discordance [ICC 006, 95% confidence interval (CI) 000018] Analysis of the posttraining questionnaires showed that the number of questions left unanswered decreased and the number of correct answers increased The difference between the percentage of correct and incorrect responses before and after the training course was statistically significant (P<0001) Comparison of responses to the pre and posttraining questionnaires provided the data for statistical evaluation of the efficacy of the training course.
