Bacterial Contamination of Food Handlers in X Hospital Palembang

Sri Utari,Irsan Saleh,Rindit Pambayun,Hermansyah Hermansyah,M Amin

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/20186801006

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Abstract

The food handlers in Hospital with the bad personal hygiene could be a potential source of infection of a pathogenic organism. The responsibility of hospital food handlers is greater compared with the common food handlers such as in restaurants, etc. This is because they should provide the healthy food to the patients in Hospital who might have low immunity, and the contaminated food could have very dangerous consequences. This study aimed to investigate the potential contamination of food handlers in X hospital, Palembang. The study was carried out by a cross-sectional method on food handlers’. There were 30 respondents examined in this study. The bacterial examination was conducted by following the standard procedures of World Health Organization (WHO). The results showed that there were 11 (36.7%) from 30respondents positively contaminated byEscherichia coliand there all respondent contaminated in samples were women. There was no worker contaminated byStaphylococcus aureus. The study proved that in X hospital of Palembang, there were some food handlers contaminated byEscherichia coli.

Highlights

The food handlers in Hospital with the bad personal hygiene could be a potential source of infection of a pathogenic organism [1,2,3,4]
The number of food handler contaminated E. coliand S. aureusis 11 respondents (36.7%), and 0 respondent (0%) in which all the contaminated workers are women
Similar with the previous results, Oundo et al conducted a research in several Hotels in Kenya and the results presented 1.2 % from 262 respondents, 4% from 253 respondents and 1.8 % from 885 respondents were positively contaminated by E. coli in the city of Diani, Malindi, and Nairobi, respectively [25]

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The food handlers in Hospital with the bad personal hygiene could be a potential source of infection of a pathogenic organism [1,2,3,4]. The contaminated-food could occur at any point during the bacterial journey through production, processing, distribution, and preparation [2] [5,6]. The risk of food contamination depends on the health status of food handlers, personal hygiene, and knowledge, and practice of food hygiene[7,8].

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