Food hygiene practices in hospital canteens in Bamako

Abstract

In Mali, hospitals are the appropriate for the sales of food of any kind. .It is in order to evaluate food hygiene practice at hospitals that this present survey has been carried ant. . A cross-sectional survey has been undertaken trough a descriptive pool by a convenient test in in30 (thirty) restaurants and 59 (fifty nine) Consumers, from 3 to 5 December 2012. The relevant information has been collected from public and private restaurants, from, Consumers and key informers by a direct or semi structured interview and an observation through a chart. The Pearson Chi2 test has been used to compare the averages. . Our results showed that only 16.7% of the restaurants were observing the food hygiene rules. Nearly 63.3% of them were not disinfecting prepared foods and raw vegetables with neither permanganate nor bleach. Washing hand in the soap has been judged acceptable by 10% of the interviewed. More than two over three (70%) of the restaurant owners had not received any training about the good practices of food hygiene. For 40% of the consumers , the environment where food is prepared was dirty ,and 66.7 % of the restaurants were not using working clothes .Nearly 28.8% of the consumers had been at least once in trouble with illnesses such as diarrhea ,abdominal pain and vomiting. Food hygiene is remains strongly influenced by the way of cooking and the behavior of the, sellers who should adopt good practices to preserve the health of consumers.