Considerable proportions of foodborne illness arises from malpractices in purchasing food stuff. Such as serving contaminated raw food, insufficient cooking reheating of left overs, and poor hygiene practices. There are no food safety regulations for domestic kitchens hence, houshold womens as primery food handlers have to ensure food safety hygiene practices at home. The present study was an attempt to assess food safety awareness of consumers from shopping to eating in Lahore to understand its status, as there is no previous study found in this field in Lahore . A sample of 1000 consumers from 10 towns of Lahore was collected. Simple Random Sampling was used to select shopping malls and bazars with in towns and convenient sampling for selection of consumers. A KAP survey study ws conducted using a closed-ended questionaire to assess status of food safety awareness among consumers. A variable sheet was generated on SPSS version 22.0. Descriptives statistics was used to calculate mean and percentages of responces and overall knowledge, attitude and practices . Chi-Square test was used to study significant association between knowledge, attitude, practices scores and education levels. And also to study association between knowledge and practices. Mean and standard deviation scores for overall knowledge of consumers was 37.61 ± 1.087 which showed negative food safety knowledge among majority of the consumers. And overall practices mean was 54.89 ± 1.052 which showed unhygieneic food handling practices among
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majority of the consumers. Significant difference was observed between education and KAP scores and attitude and practices of consumers. Data obtained served as baseline knowledge and information for emphasis on continues improvement on the knowledge of consumers. Food handlers who is going to prepare food probably have poor knowledge and misunderstandings about food safety and are certainly engaged in culturally focused stereotypical food handling practices. Henceforth, consumers should commit and expose themselves to attaining the prerequisite knowledge and sources of information needed in reducing the probability of potential risks that will eventually lead to progressive food safety culture development in Pakistan. It is thus advised that there is a need for surveillance and interventions at domestic level with professionals assistance for consumers regarding food safety issues. Food safety educational programs through official and casual training and media must be advertised and repeated at specific intervals. Health and educational instituations can communicate and provide short training courses to consumers of all ages, especially brginning at school since education has a bigger impact on food safety KAP in current study. They need to be informed about the basic principles of food safety at home and as well as from purchase using “Five Keys to Safer Food” as Food Safety starts and ends with frequent behaviors of consumers. This study determines that there is a need for additional research to identify the possible risks that could pose to human health in regard to food safety from purchase to home.