Degaga, Endalkachew Gurmu (2014) Assessment of Sanitary Condition of Food Catering Establishments in Addis Ketema sub-City, Addis Ababa City Administration. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
Background: Food borne illnesses are prevalent in all parts of the world. However, number of related problems keep food borne diseases at high levels within the African Region, the root cause is poverty, which exacerbates food safety problems in many ways and contributes to unsanitary conditions in rapidly growing urban centers, lack of access to clean water, unhygienic transportation and storage of foods. Just like many other African countries, food borne illnesses are prevalent in Ethiopia and the loss of human life and suffering is enormous. Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the sanitary condition of food catering establishment in Addis Ketema Sub-City, Addis Ababa City Administration. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted from March to April 2014 at different Food catering establishments in Addis Ababa city Administration Addis Ketema Sub-City selected by using Stratified random sampling method followed by population proportion to size allocation. Three hundred fifty two establishments were enrolled in this study. Microbiological tests of food utensils were conducted using standard laboratory procedures. The collected data was cleaned and entered by developing a template using Epi info 3.5.3 and the sanitary condition of food catering establishments were analyzed by using SPSS version 16 Software. Results: Latrine facilities were available in 297 (84.6%) catering food establishments. However, the toilets were not separately constructed from kitchen room. 234 (66.7%) of the kitchens had access to running tap water inside the facility. Conventional types of sinks fixed with running tap water were available in 245(69.8%) of the catering food establishments. Of the examined food utensils for bacteriologic content. Staphylococcus aureus were found in 14(36.8%), Escherichia Coli in 6 (15.8%) and 4(10.5%) Shigella species were found from the swabbed utensils Conclusion and recommendation: The sanitary condition of catering food establishments in the study area were found to have poor sanitation and were not fulfil the requirements of catering food establishments. Appropriate regular inspection of food catering establishment should be strengthening by regulatory body Sub-City and Woreda health to the fulfilment of catering food establishments to acceptable sanitary conditions.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Catering, Sanitary condition, Hygienic requirements, Swab tes |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA1001 Forensic Medicine. Medical jurisprudence. Legal medicine |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Vincent Mpoza |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Oct 2018 14:37 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Oct 2018 14:37 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/7060 |
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