Food safety knowledge, attitudes and self-reported practices among Ontario high school students.

Objectives: To measure the food safety knowledge, attitudes and self-reported practices of high school students in Ontario.

Methods: We administered a school-wide paper survey to the student body (n = 2,860) of four Ontario high schools. We developed the survey by selecting questions from existing, validated questionnaires, prioritizing questions that aligned with the Canadian Partnership for Consumer Food Safety Education's educational messages and the food safety objectives from the 2013 Ontario High School Curriculum.