In response to the decreasing number of veterinary medicine graduates interested in working in the food sector and public health, the competency of students from a food safety-related university major-named "Food Hygiene" (FH) for taking the responsibilities of a veterinarian in the field of hygienic food production-was assessed in the present study. In this regard, a cross-sectional study was conducted in 2022 at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran to evaluate the food safety knowledge (K), attitude (A), and practice (P) among the students from FH (