Street food trading solves major social and economic problems in developing countries
through the provision of ready-made meals at relatively inexpensive prices and employment …

Mycotoxins are toxic secondary metabolites of fungal origin and contaminate agricultural
commodities before or under post-harvest conditions. They are mainly produced by fungi in …

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the microbial quality of foods sold on streets of Accra and factors
predisposing to their contamination. METHODS: Structured questionnaires were used to …

Street food vendors in Kampala, Jinja and Masaka districts in Uganda were surveyed to
assess risk factors, practices and knowledge of street food vendors with respect to food …

During investigations on street food vendors ’ materials, seventy samples of three types of
dish washing water (E1, E2, E3), eighty-five pieces of money, eighty utensils were collected …

Diarrhea has been identified as a major cause of childhood morbidity in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The study examines two weeks incidence of diarrhea among children under six years in …

Objective To analyse and improve the effectiveness of common indigenous washing
methods for the reduction of faecal coliform (FC) populations on the surface of wastewater …

Data was collected from food vendors in a poor resource community in Ghana, which
showed that the vendors constituted an important source of oro-faecal transmission …

Background: Food safety problems are particularly becoming an increasingly serious threat
to public health in developing countries. This study was conducted to assess microbiological …

The triple burden of malnutrition is an incessant issue in low-and middle-income countries,
and fish has the potential to mitigate this burden. In Ghana fish is a central part of the diet …