Hygienic practices among food handlers in restaurants of Al-Nohod locality market-West Kordofan-Sudan-2017

Abstract EN

ntroduction: Hygiene practices among food handlers has gained considérable importance in each step of the food chain from production to préparation and serving of the food since nutritional habits hâve changed and out of house food consumption has increased due to the living and working conditions of today’s world.

Objective: This study was conducted to investigate hygienic practices of food handlers in restaurants of Al-nohod locality market-2017.

Research methodology: This was community based cross sectional study which covered 34 restaurants and 40 food handlers (cookers) with 100% response rate.

The data were collected in October 2016,