Food consumption patterns, home food safety practices and gastrointestinal health in a Canadian community
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis investigated the food consumption patterns in the Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada, using a cross-sectional telephone survey of 2,332 randomly selected residents conducted between November 2005 and March 2006. Respondents reported preparing and consuming the majority of their meals at home. High-risk food consumption increased with increasing total household income level. Males were more likely to engage in risky practices than females. Specific high-risk behaviours of public health concern were reported by elderly individuals (e.g. consuming undercooked eggs), children (e.g. consuming chicken nuggets) and rural residents (e.g. drinking unpasteurized milk). Respondents appeared to know, but not implement, proper food safety practices. Practices significantly associated with gastroenteritis included thawing meat in water (OR=1.81), relying on experience to determine readiness of cooked meat (OR=3.31), and knowing the correct recommended refrigerator temperature (OR=1.65). These findings identify specific audiences to which food safety interventions should be targeted.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".