Street�Vended foods: Is it safe?

Kagne; S.R.

Volume : VI, Issue : VIII, August - 2016

Street�Vended foods: Is it safe?

Kagne, S. R.

Abstract :

The street food industry plays an important role in meeting the food requirements of urban dwellers in many cities and towns of developing countries and the industry feeds millions of people daily with a wide variety of foods. Street foods were collected from different locations of Jalna city. The collected food samples were analyzed and found that presence of E. coli and S. enteritidis in each type of street food samples. The unhygienic quality of most popular types of street vended foods may be banned which is sold based on the consumer demand. So, there is an urgent need to follow the control measures by all food venders to improve microbial quality of street vended foods.