Food safety practice and associated factors among food handlers working in food and drinking establishments in Debre Birhan City, North Eastern Ethiopia: A convergent parallel mixed-method study

Belachew Tekleyohannes Wogayehu

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0346700

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Food safety practice and associated factors among food handlers working in food and drinking establishments in Debre Birhan City, North Eastern Ethiopia: A convergent parallel mixed-method study

Belachew Tekleyohannes Wogayehu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: belachewtekleyohannes@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Debre Birhan Health Science College, Debre Birhan, Ethiopia

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6600-9353

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Food safety practice and associated factors among food handlers working in food and drinking establishments in Debre Birhan City, North Eastern Ethiopia: A convergent parallel mixed-method study

Belachew Tekleyohannes Wogayehu

Published: April 16, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0346700

About the Authors

Belachew Tekleyohannes Wogayehu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: belachewtekleyohannes@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Debre Birhan Health Science College, Debre Birhan, Ethiopia

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6600-9353

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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