Households in Ati face high food consumption costs which determine different states of food and nutritional security. This study was carried out with the aim of analyzing household food consumption in order to contribute to better knowledge of the food and nutritional situation a...
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Research Article10.9734/afsj/2024/v23i1695
The present study aims at quantitatively assessing the risk associated with Salmonella in lettuce (Lactuca sativa) consumed in Benin (West Africa). To that end, a survey was conducted involving 550 respondents to determine the conditions under which the product is handled along t...
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Research Article10.9734/mrji/2022/v32i91341
Paul Yao Attien, Atobla Koua, Kamirou Chabi-Sika, Haziz Sina, Ibrahim Konate & Lamine Baba-Moussa·Asian Food Science Journal·2021
Introduction: Staphylococcus aureus is one of the main pathogens found in street food, including hot beverages. However, information about S. aureus isolated from street hot beverages from coffee carts is very limited in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Aims: We aimed to characterize phen...
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Research Article10.9734/afsj/2021/v20i1130375
Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of Shigella spp and methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in some selected commercially processed ready-to-eat snail (Archachatina marginata) and edible worm (Rhynchophorus phoenicis). Study Design: Cross-sectional...
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Research Article10.9734/afsj/2021/v20i530298
Aims: Tigernut drink are made from tigernut tubers (Cyperus esculentus L.) and rich in nutrients. This drink is locally produced and widely consumed in Nigeria irrespective of social status. This study is aimed at evaluating the microbial quality and physicochemical property of t...
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Research Article10.9734/afsj/2020/v16i130164
I. Ahmad, R. S. Chowdhury, Rayhan Uddin, A. Shakawat, W. U. Rahman & Wahidu Zzaman·Asian Food Science Journal·2019
HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) metasystem is a concept not much familiar to the tea industries of Bangladesh. This study was conducted to investigate the issue of food safety through HACCP metasystem and conduct a hazard analysis to make a comprehensive model...
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Research Article10.9734/afsj/2019/v13i330106
Since the food safety and the foodborne diseases are becoming a main health concern in developing countries, the aim of this study is to determine, in accordance with the specific international standards, the compliance of the main frozen imported fish and fresh chilled fishes ma...
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Research Article10.9734/mrji/2019/v28i630149
Sweet and Bitter Cassava tubers were fermented for production of cassava flours. The samples were peeled, washed with potable water and cut into slices of 5-6 cm length. They were steeped separately in water to ferment spontaneously for 4 days. The samples were serially diluted a...
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Research Article10.9734/afsj/2019/v11i130050
Hephzibah Oluwatoyin Ajulo, Victoria Olusola Adetunji & Matthew Olugbenga Ajulo·Asian Food Science Journal·2019
Study Design: A questionnaire survey was carried out on 25 eateries from 7 local government areas (LGAs) in Ibadan. Eateries and LGAs were selected by convenience purposive sampling. Four eateries at the most, comprising of standard and substandard types were selected from each o...
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Research Article10.9734/afsj/2019/v8i129984
Background: There are indications that some ready-to-eat or street vended foods are of low microbial quality with varying degree of contaminations. The contaminants may include antibiotic-resistant bacteria that may further be spread through consumption of such foods which has ep...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/7351
Enterococci have continued to attract considerable importance and attention as pathogens of public health concern both in the hospital and environmental settings. Therefore epidemiological studies of these organisms are now a major research interest. Incidence of multiple antibio...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/7348
Aims: With a previous observation of pathogenic drug-resistant microorganisms in raw milk samples, current investigation further endeavored to determine the presence of Salmonella spp. and portrayed a complete map of the overall microbiological feature of milk and milk based prod...
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Research Article10.9734/BMRJ/2015/11010