Volume : V, Issue : II, February - 2015

Microbiological Analysis of Street Vended Food in West Delhi

Arpita Sharma, Himani Bhardwaj, Indu Ravi

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Street food vending has become an important public health issue and a great concern to everybody. The present study was aimed to investigate the hygienic conditions of the vendors and microbial quality of street foods. It was shown that their food handling practices were very poor. For microbial analysis, 5 street foods and 5 franchise’s food products were taken from most popular shops. In local street foods, the bacterial load in vegmomos (130±2.1– 34.5±1.5 CFU/g) and non–veg momos (360±2.55–4±0.60 CFU/g) was high than the other samples. In anded food product samples, burger (362.5±2.55 CFU/g), non–veg momos (262.5±2.41–2.0±0.30 CFU/g), veg–momos (85.0±1.92–9.0±0.95 CFU/g), gol–gappa (237.5±2.37– 8±0.90 CFU/g) was seen. The presence of coliform indicated faecal contamination of the processing water as well as the prevailing unhygienic conditions related to the location of food preparation. It is suggested that proper hygienic and sanitary conditions has to be maintained both personally and institutionally to avoid any food–borne pathogenic outeaks in India, especially in the children and young who are tempted to such food. Therefore, the critical control points should be taken as safe limit by the Government/ authorities to reduce the cases of food contamination.

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Arpita Sharma, Himani Bhardwaj, Indu Ravi Microbiological Analysis of Street Vended Food in West Delhi Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.5, Issue : 2 February 2015

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