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RESEARCH PAPER No. 2011 – 01

HYGIENE AND SANITATION OF STREET FOOD VENDORS IN BAGUIO CITY

Mark Ace Acosta, Franco Alvarado, Cristine Baturi,
Eva Marie Galamgam, Lukelene Nisperos and
Joni Therese Razote

HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM MANAGEMENT RESEARCH IN BAGUIO CITY

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MARCH 2011

Hygiene and Sanitation of Street Food Vendors in Baguio City

Mark Ace Acosta, Franco Adalard Alvarado, Cristine Baturi, Eva Marie Galamgam, Lukelene Nisperos and Mrs. Joni Therese P. Razote

ABSTRACT

The street food industry has an important role in meeting the demands of urban dwellers, but along with that are risk health hazards that may occur to people. The paper examines the food safety and hygienic practices of food vendors of Baguio city and the data gathering shows that almost street vendors here do not practice proper food handling; only few of them attended seminars regarding safety and sanitation. The study aims to know the awareness and practices of street food vendors in food handling thus the finding recommends that there is a need for health education in order to ensure food safety to consumers.

KEYWORDS:   food safety; hygienic; street food vendors

1. INTRODUCTION

Street foods today are becoming more popular because of its cheap price and relatively easy accessibility to urban residents. While this development is positive in many ways, it also prevents new public health challenges for the urban population. Safe food hygiene is difficult to practice at street level, and outbreaks in diarrheal diseases have been linked to street food. Few vendors only acquired the knowledge of food preparation by formal training.... [continues]

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