Students’ Level of Awareness of Expiry Dates of Caned Products
Abstract
This study assessed the level of awareness of Polytechnic students on expiry dates of canned products. The design that was used for the study was the cross-sectional survey. Using the simple random sampling procedure, 191 students of Hospitality and Tourism Department were selected for the study. Data gathered from the use of the questionnaire was analysed using the descriptive statistics namely frequencies, percentages and means. It was found out that students showed a high consideration to expiry dates before purchasing or using canned products. With this, students refused to buy products that had no expiry dates. It is recommended that the Ghana Health Service, Ministry of Health and other Non-governmental Organisations should intensify their education on expiry dates of the product since some of the students even though aware of the effects of expired product still do not consider before purchase and usage.