SURVEI TINGKAT PENGETAHUAN KEAMANAN BAHAN TAMBAHAN PANGAN DAN ANALISIS KUALITATIF KALIUM BROMAT PADA ROTI

• Main Author: Harlim, Stella
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/44409
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Bread is a oftenly consumed by the community as a substitute food for rice. Bread must be added with legal food additive. Potassium bromate is a food additive that has been banned by the Decree of Minister of Health No 033/2012. The knowledge of food additives, especially potassium bromate, for the community is limited. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to compare the level of knowledge about food additive and the safety of food additive in 300 respondents consisting of 100 random students of pharmacy school ITB (F), 100 random ITB students other than the pharmacy school (NF), and 100 other random people (M) using the questionnaire method and chi square test; and qualitative analysis potassium bromate of bread using UV-Vis spectrophotometry was further carried out. ITB Pharmacy students have the highest level of knowledge of food additives (99%), prohibited food additives for breads (61%), bakeries that had added hazardous substances (100%), and information about hazardous substances (100%). There was no significantly difference between each group of respondents about their knowledge of the potassium bromate and its function in making a bread (p>0,05). The whole respondents were lack of knowledge about how to choose safe foods. The respondents were clearly informed to colorants, preservatives, flavorings, flour improvers, and essence. The hazardous substances that were most commonly known by all respondents were formalin and borax. Most frequently bought bread samples based on questionnaires and 6 random samples of bread that were purchased from the market were tested. In general, ITB Pharmacy students have a higher level of knowledge than the other two groups of respondents. There were 2 of 17 samples which showed positive for potassium bromate.