Situation of Food Sanitation on Food Stalls in Market Rangsit Municipality, Pathum Thani Province

Abstract

This cross-sectional survey research aimed to study situation of food sanitation on food stalls and examination of coliform bacteria, kitchen utensils and food handlers. The sample consisted of 16 food stalls in market of Rangsit municipality, Pathum Thani province. Data were collected using Food Sanitation Inspection Form by Department of Health, Interview and Observation Form, and Coliform bacteria test kits (SI-2). The analysis of descriptive statistics was used such as frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation. The results showed that physical investigation of food stalls found that 21.74% passed the food stall standard criteria for food sanitation, the observation of entrepreneur behaviors in 5 categories was at a good level (81.25%, average score; 14.31) Analysis of coliform bacterial were mostly found on food handlers (68.75%) and kitchen utensils (63.64%) but not found on food samples. This study findings revealed that food sanitation surveillance which collected systematic and continually data is important to promote and ensure consumers in clean food good taste standard.