Food-borne pathogens are a major source of illness and death, thus leading to a huge expenditure of money on healthcare. Generally children are affected the most by food poisoning due to their weak immune systems. Key contributing factors include changes in eating habits, mass catering, availability of street foods at neighborhood corners, social or religious fairs, complex and lengthy food sup...

Background: Every institution which provides food for a large group of consumers has the responsibility to keep the safety and wholesomeness of food otherwise it may result outbreaks of food borne illness. The most identified contributing factors of food borne illness in mass catering establishments were cross contamination, dirty work environment and poor personal hygiene practice by food hand...

Food-borne pathogens are a major source of illness and death, thus leading to a huge expenditure of money on healthcare. Generally children are affected the most by food poisoning due to their weak immune systems. Key contributing factors include changes in eating habits, mass catering, availability of street foods at neighborhood corners, social or religious fairs, complex and lengthy food sup...

Clostridium perfringens is an important anaerobic pathogen causing food-borne gastrointestinal (GI) diseases in humans and animals. It is thought that C. perfringens food poisoning isolates typically carry the enterotoxin gene (cpe) on their chromosome, while isolates from other GI diseases, such as antibiotic-associated diarrhea, carry cpe on a transferable plasmid. However, food-borne GI dise...

Diseases spread through food still remain a common and persistent problems resulting in appreciable morbidity and occasional mortality. Food handlers play an important role in ensuring food safety throughout the chain of production, processing, storage and preparation. This study is to explore the pattern of sociodemographic distribution and to determine knowledge, attitude and practice of food...

Food-borne pathogens are a major source of illness and death, thus leading to a huge expenditure of money on healthcare. Generally children are affected the most by food poisoning due to their weak immune systems. Key contributing factors include changes in eating habits, mass catering, availability of street foods at neighborhood corners, social or religious fairs, complex and lengthy food sup...

Pork occupies an important place in the diet of the population of Nagaland, one of the North East Indian states. We carried out a pilot study along the pork meat production chain, from live animal to end consumer. The goal was to obtain information about the presence of selected food borne hazards in pork in order to assess the risk deriving from these hazards to the health of the local consume...

Background: Salmonella is one of the most common food-borne pathogens that can cause illness. In this study, the sensitivity and the specificity of Aptamer-Magnetic bead Separation-Polymerase Chain Reaction (AMS-PCR) method were determined for Salmonella spp. detection. Methods: Different concentrations of Salmonella enterica were mixed with streptavidin-magnetic beads coated with biotinylated...