Shalinawati RamliNurul Azmawati MohamedTengku Zetty Maztura Tengku Jamaludin2Che Ilina Che IsahakNooriah Mohamed SallehWan Shahida Wan Sulaiman2024-05-272024-05-2720141757-1774https://oarep.usim.edu.my/handle/123456789/3584Introduction: Foodborne diseases have caused a significant morbidity and mortality around the world. Food safety is an increasingly important public health issue since years ago until now. Food handlers have a major role in the prevention of food poisoning during food production and distribution. However, food contamination by food handlers could occur and leading to foodborne diseases if they lack knowledge and neglect of their personal hygiene on food handling practices in their premises. This study was aimed to assess the level knowledge, attitude and practices among food handlers in Kuala Lumpur. Methods: A cross sectional study was carried out on 30 food handlers. The information consisting of demographic, knowledge, attitude and practices on personal hygiene was collected using self-administered questionnaire. Results :Overall results showed that the majority of the food handlers had a good knowledge, attitude and practices on personal hygiene. Analyzed data obtained stated that mean score for knowledge is 2.84±0.10 out of total 3 respectively, attitude is 4.38±0.25 and practices is 4.37±0.68 out of total 5 respectively. Discussion :This study revealed that, although food handlers personal hygiene knowledge, attitude and practices were good, some of the hygiene aspects need to be emphasized. However, more effort is needed such as continuous education and food safety training should be provided periodically and frequently in order to minimize foodborne hazardsen-USArticle15