FOOD HYGIENE

Hygiene practices among street food vendors:- Street food suppliers have generally poor food handling practices, and most are operating under unsanitary conditions. Vendors usually use portable booth,food cart or truck to sale food item. The chief characteristic of street food is that street food are reasonably priced and flavoured and easily available .  Regarding personal hygiene practices of vendors, result showed that 84.0 percent of vendors used clean clothes , 85.5 percent do not use jewelry, 85.5 percent do not cover there hair , 93.1percent used bare hand during food preparation and serving ,100 percent handle money with bare hands while serving food and 91.5 percent do not wash the hands after handling money before serving food again . 6.9 percent of food vendors were observed to breathe /cough, pick the nose and tough the hair while handling food . Food and ingredient may be subjected to cross contamination from unwashed hands. Also take of good personal hygiene practises...