Sanitary Conditions of Food Vending Sites and Food Handling Practices of Street Food Vendors in Benin City, Nigeria: Implication for Food Hygiene and Safety

Okojie, Paul; Isah, EC

doi:10.1155/2014/701316

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“…e greater proportion of females who were street food vendors in this study reflects the sociocultural role of women in food preparation and serving in Ghana. Similar findings have been reported in Benin City, Nigeria [20], Ethiopia [21], and Uganda [6]. In countries such as Haiti [22] and Kenya [23], it was reported that street food vendors were predominantly males.…”

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Knowledge on Food Safety and Food-Handling Practices of Street Food Vendors in Ejisu-Juaben Municipality of Ghana

Addo-Tham

Appiah-Brempong

Vampere

et al. 2020

Advances in Public Health

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Street foods have become a major source of cooked food for most households and individuals in many developing countries including Ghana. However, the rising concern about food-borne illness has questioned the knowledge of the street food vendors to constitute safety practices for food handling. This study assessed the knowledge of street food vendors on food safety and food-handling practices in the Ejisu-Juaben Municipality of Ghana. The study used a cross-sectional mixed approach involving 340 participants selected by simple random sampling. A structured questionnaire and an observational checklist were used to collect data and analyzed using STATA version 12. The results indicated that 98.8% of the food vendors had good knowledge on food safety and handling. The knowledge on food safety was associated with training (p value ≤0.011), license status (p value ≤0.002), marital status (p value <0.001), and religion (p value ≤0.038). Good food-handling practices were associated with training (p value ≤0. 001) and license (p value ≤0.002) and not their educational levels. The study found training of food vendors as the most effective way to increase knowledge on food safety and enhance food-handling practices. The study recommended for collaborations of municipal assemblies with other agencies to strengthen, sustain, and organize regular training programs for new entrants and existing food vendors as well as retraining of trainers to equip them adequately with knowledge and skills to enable them effectively facilitate training programs for food vendors.

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Knowledge on Food Safety and Food-Handling Practices of Street Food Vendors in Ejisu-Juaben Municipality of Ghana

Addo-Tham

Appiah-Brempong

Vampere

et al. 2020

Advances in Public Health

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“…17 Studies like Bamidele et al, Rahman et al and Cuprasittrut et al had shown poor hygiene practice among food handlers, whereas a contrasting result is seen in some studies where more than half of the respondents were having good practice. 14,[18][19][20][21][22] Significant association (p<0.05) between practice and socio demographic characteristics like education, marital status and type of food vendor was found, suggesting practice is not only dependent on knowledge and attitude but is also influenced by several other socio demographic factors.…”

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Knowledge, attitude and practice of food hygiene among street food vendors near a tertiary care hospital in Kolkata, India

Mukherjee

Mondal

et al. 2018

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Health care set ups in Indian cities are being catered by a number of street food vendors on whom the patients, visitors, doctors, medical students and staff depend. Thus, ensuring proper food hygiene among them is of uttermost importance. The purpose of the study was to determine knowledge, attitude and practice of food hygiene among them and various factors that influence it.Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted on 106 street food vendors surrounding a tertiary care hospital in Kolkata. A predesigned pretested schedule was used to collect information on socio-demographic profile, knowledge and attitude on food hygiene through interviews and practice was observed. Statistical analysis was done using Pearson’s Chi-squared test.Results: The mean age of food vendors was 37.74±10.70 years and majority were familiar with the terms “food hygiene” and “food borne illness”. The median score of attitude on food hygiene was 9.5 and significant (p<0.05) association was found with age, gender and education. Less than one third of street food vendors had acceptable practice and significant (p<0.05) association was found with education, marital status and type of food vendor.Conclusions: The street food vendors were aware of food hygiene and had favourable attitude towards it, but it wasn’t translated in their hygiene practice. This study can help to identify the factors that influence food hygiene practice and incorporate them in food hygiene training.

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“…There is also a need to generate food and personal hygiene, and to ensure an effective system of regular hygienic-sanitary examinations with vendors and regular sample collections of the foodstuffs sold to customers [37]. Food vendors are recommended to maintain standard environmental and personal hygiene while preparing, packaging or serving food products to consumers [38]. Proietti et al [39] proposed specific points of attention for street food preparation and sales based on related hazard-tailored actions.…”

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Mobile Artisanal Cheese Vending in Small Street Markets of Gran Canaria

Sánchez¹,

Lugo²,

Millán³

et al. 2015

Int J Clin Nutr Diet

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This survey-based study evaluates the effect of three factors (market location, kind of stall facilities and presence of intermediaries) on the hygienic-sanitary quality of markets, which could condition the food risk of the artisanal cheeses sold in them. As street vending in the Canaries archipelago is important tocommercialise traditional reference products, thisstudy compares the hygienic-sanitary conditions of stalls in several street markets on the Gran CanariaIsland by taking artisanal cheese as a reference product. The results show that the markets in coastal areas obtain a higher food sellers score than those in inland areas. Presence of permanent stalls allows the hygienic-sanitary criteria set out by law on street sales to be better applied than markets with temporary stalls. The former obtain much higher scores than the latter. Finally, presence of intermediaries made the survey scores drastically lower, but theywere higher when producers ranstalls. Facilitating the staff in this sector access to specialised training is fundamental. This is the main problem faced in such businesses, followed by asking competent authorities to collaborate more to ensure that current legislation is met, and to protect and improve traditional sales as their importance in society and today's economy in many regions is vital.

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Sanitary Conditions of Food Vending Sites and Food Handling Practices of Street Food Vendors in Benin City, Nigeria: Implication for Food Hygiene and Safety

Cited by 95 publications

References 11 publications

Knowledge on Food Safety and Food-Handling Practices of Street Food Vendors in Ejisu-Juaben Municipality of Ghana

Knowledge on Food Safety and Food-Handling Practices of Street Food Vendors in Ejisu-Juaben Municipality of Ghana

Knowledge, attitude and practice of food hygiene among street food vendors near a tertiary care hospital in Kolkata, India

Mobile Artisanal Cheese Vending in Small Street Markets of Gran Canaria

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