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This survey contains limitations and reveals future research
opportunities. First, 38.9% of participants reported that
preemployment interviews with conditional employees did
not cover written employee health policies and reporting
requirements. This implies that opportunities exist to
improve communication of employee health policy with
conditional workers. Future research can provide a more
holistic view and assess the policy effectiveness accurately
by filling the gap of employee health policy implementation
among conditional employees.
Second, the research participants were limited to retail
food establishments including restaurants, grocery stores,
and C-stores in the United States. The majority of participants
represented larger franchises or chains; thus, research
findings should be carefully viewed when applying them
to different contexts (e.g., catering operations or small
independent operations). Future study could supplement
this research outcome by enlarging the sample, including
smaller operations, or including different geographic locations
and contexts.
And third, this survey relied on self-reported data. Selfreporting
answers about policy and practice related to food
safety and ensuring consumer safety may have influenced
participants to provide socially desirable responses (24).
Although the participants' desire to provide socially
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acceptable answers cannot be controlled on the researchers'
end, the research team collaboratively developed the survey
questions to reduce possible bias. Also, the survey items
were reviewed by 10 external experts before distribution to
eliminate potential confusion, thereby allowing this research
to obtain relatively clear answers from the research subjects.
Nevertheless, future research can further reduce the inherent
bias by collecting data in different ways, such as collecting
another round of data from the participating companies'
employees who are affected.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This article was supported by the FDA and U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a
financial assistance award (Federal Award Identification
U18FD007051.) totaling $1,000,000, with 100% of this
article funded by the FDA and HHS. The contents are those
of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official
views of, nor an endorsement by, FDA, HHS, or the U.S.
Government. The authors thank Hyei Rin Joo and Soyeon
You (Iowa State University) for help in manuscript preparation.
In addition, the authors thank Carrie Rigdon and
Deanna Copeland (Association of Food and Drug Officials)
for editorial assistance.
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