مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - Structural properties and the opinions about legislation of herbalists selling medicinal,aromatic and spice plants in Istanbul province

Abstract :

It is aimed to determine structural properties of herbalists and their opinions about legislations on theirown activities in Istanbul. The data are obtained via questionnaire method from 75 herbalists in January 2015. Addition to the percent distributions and averages of frequencies, Chi-square test (X^2) is used to determine relationship of sufficiency and effectiveness of official checking with some characteristics ofherbalists, and Factor Analyze is also used to determine the opinions of herbalists about legislation. It is determined that 94.67% of herbalists are men, their averaged ages are 38.52. They are mostly graduatedfrom high school (44.00%), the averaged professional experience are 12.89 years and 76.60% of them had learned their profession through work. The enterprises are active for 11.73 years and mostly privateadministrations (61.33%). The products selling in the enterprises are supplied from wholesaler (92.00%) and manufacturer (28.00%). The 17.33% of herbalists reported that consumers demand products as mixture and 50.67% of them train consumers about use of the products. It is determined with chi-square test that there were significant relationships of sufficiency and effectiveness of controls accepted by herbalists with family job, legal structure, training of consumers, awareness of food safety systems andcontrol frequency. In factor analyses, the assessments of herbalists about the legislation numbered 5777 have reduced in to 4 factors, to 3 factors for each of supplementary food regulation notification and spicesnotification, and these factors accounted for 68.89%, 77.64% and 74.15% of total variance, respectively.