The present work aimed to identify the awareness and the perception of household's towards food safety and its effects on family consumptions in Elobeid town in Sudan. The investigation was adopted a framework of three concepts concerning food quality those concepts are awareness, understanding and use of foods type. The data of the study were collected through focus group discussion (8 FGD) and household survey (104 HHs) using systematic random sample techniques. Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 16 were applied for data analysis. Results obtained showed that 52.9% HHs have not formal education, (62.5% HHs) in age group of 31- 60 years. The majority of HHs (87.5%) purchased their necessary goods when it was less expensive. The level of awareness in terms of functional food ingredients for healthy status is very low 42.3% this attributed to less understanding of the importance of valid ingredients in the product and indifference about nutrition fact label. 68.3% HHs belief that the level of awareness determines the choices of food items needs. 83.7% HHs perceived some vendors have less honesty and running for selling his goods, 55.7% HHs perceived that the role of monitoring corporations is very weak and need for invigorated. Vast HHs (51%) used fresh goods for daily consumption. According to the results presented in this study more efforts should be exerted towards building awareness capacity to those residents in margin cities through awareness campaigns to make nutrition information more accessible for safety consumption as recommended point of view.

Awareness, Household, Consumption, Food Quality, Sudan