Students knowledge about genetically modificated food products and their opinion about use of these products

Objectives. To evaluate student‘s knowledge and attitude on genetically modified food. To compare students knowledge and attitude according profile of universities. The questionnaire was distributed at Faculty of Public Health of Kaunas University of Medicine and Faculty of Informatics of Kaunas University of Technology. Materials and methods. Students of Public health and Informatics faculties were interviewed by anonymous questionnaire. Analysis of student’s knowledge and attitude was performed taking into account some general topics. The topics were: use of GMO and GMF in food industry and agriculture, positive or negative attitude to growing of GMO in Lithuania, marking of GMF, use GMF in our everyday life. There were compared attitudes and identified differences between students of Public health and Informatics faculties. The findings of the questionnaire based survey were stored in the database using Excel software. The statistic data analysis was carried out by using statistic package „SPSS 13“. Statistical relationships were determined by applying the nonparametric χ2 criterion and Pearson’s coefficient. Statistical significance was determinated when p<0.05 and p<0.01 (significant and very significant result). Results. Evaluating students knowledge, 83.3 % of KMU students precisely described GMF, only 76.7 % students of KTU were able to describe GMF. Knowledge about GMF was statistically different in there two universities (p