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Not All Street Food Is Bad: Low Prevalence of Antibiotic-Resistant Salmonella enterica in Ready-to-Eat (RTE) Meats in Ghana Is Associated with Good Vendors’ Knowledge of Meat Safety

Foodborne infections due to the consumption of meat is a significant threat to public health. However, good vendor and consumer knowledge of meat safety could prevent meat contamination with and transmission of foodborne pathogens like Salmonella. Thus, this study investigated the vendor and consume...

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Main Authors:	Martin Aduah, Frederick Adzitey, Daniel Gyamfi Amoako, Akebe Luther King Abia, Rejoice Ekli, Gabriel Ayum Teye, Amir H. M. Shariff, Nurul Huda
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Language:	English English
Published:	MDPI 2021
Subjects:	TX341-641 Nutrition. Foods and food supply
Online Access:	https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34649/1/Abstract.pdf https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34649/2/Full.pdf https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34649/ https://www.mdpi.com/2304-8158/10/5/1011 https://doi.org/10.3390/foods10051011
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spelling	my.ums.eprints.346492022-10-31T01:24:33Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34649/ Not All Street Food Is Bad: Low Prevalence of Antibiotic-Resistant Salmonella enterica in Ready-to-Eat (RTE) Meats in Ghana Is Associated with Good Vendors’ Knowledge of Meat Safety Martin Aduah Frederick Adzitey Daniel Gyamfi Amoako Akebe Luther King Abia Rejoice Ekli Gabriel Ayum Teye Amir H. M. Shariff Nurul Huda TX341-641 Nutrition. Foods and food supply Foodborne infections due to the consumption of meat is a significant threat to public health. However, good vendor and consumer knowledge of meat safety could prevent meat contamination with and transmission of foodborne pathogens like Salmonella. Thus, this study investigated the vendor and consumer perception, knowledge, and practices of meat safety regarding ready-to-eat (RTE) meat and how this affected the prevalence and antibiotic susceptibility of Salmonella enterica in RTE meats in the streets of Ghana. A semi-structured questionnaire was used to obtain the demographics, knowledge, and practices of meat safety data from RTE meat vendors (n = 300) and consumers (n = 382). Salmonella enterica detection was done according to the United State of America (USA)-Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) Bacteriological Analytical Manual. The disk diffusion method was used for antibiotic resistance testing. The results revealed that most of the respondents had heard of meat safety (98.3% vendors, 91.8% consumers) and knew that meat could be contaminated by poor handling (100.0% vendors, 88.9% consumers). The respondents knew that regular hand washing reduced the risk of meat contamination (100.0% vendors, 94.0% consumers). Responses to the practices of meat safety by vendors were generally better. A very low Salmonella enterica prevalence was observed in the samples, ranging between 0.0 and 4.0% for guinea fowl and beef, respectively. However, the six isolates obtained were resistant to five of the nine antibiotics tested, with all isolates displaying different resistance profiles. Overall, the good knowledge and practice of meat safety demonstrated by the respondents corroborated the negligible prevalence of Salmonella in this study, reiterating the importance of vendor meat safety knowledge. However, the presence of resistant Salmonella enterica in some of the meat samples, albeit in a very low prevalence, warrants stricter sanitary measures and greater meat safety awareness in the general population to prevent meat-borne infections and potential transmission of drug-resistant bacteria to humans. MDPI 2021 Article PeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34649/1/Abstract.pdf text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34649/2/Full.pdf Martin Aduah and Frederick Adzitey and Daniel Gyamfi Amoako and Akebe Luther King Abia and Rejoice Ekli and Gabriel Ayum Teye and Amir H. M. Shariff and Nurul Huda (2021) Not All Street Food Is Bad: Low Prevalence of Antibiotic-Resistant Salmonella enterica in Ready-to-Eat (RTE) Meats in Ghana Is Associated with Good Vendors’ Knowledge of Meat Safety. Foods, 10. pp. 1-13. ISSN 2304-8158 https://www.mdpi.com/2304-8158/10/5/1011 https://doi.org/10.3390/foods10051011
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spellingShingle	TX341-641 Nutrition. Foods and food supply Martin Aduah Frederick Adzitey Daniel Gyamfi Amoako Akebe Luther King Abia Rejoice Ekli Gabriel Ayum Teye Amir H. M. Shariff Nurul Huda Not All Street Food Is Bad: Low Prevalence of Antibiotic-Resistant Salmonella enterica in Ready-to-Eat (RTE) Meats in Ghana Is Associated with Good Vendors’ Knowledge of Meat Safety
description	Foodborne infections due to the consumption of meat is a significant threat to public health. However, good vendor and consumer knowledge of meat safety could prevent meat contamination with and transmission of foodborne pathogens like Salmonella. Thus, this study investigated the vendor and consumer perception, knowledge, and practices of meat safety regarding ready-to-eat (RTE) meat and how this affected the prevalence and antibiotic susceptibility of Salmonella enterica in RTE meats in the streets of Ghana. A semi-structured questionnaire was used to obtain the demographics, knowledge, and practices of meat safety data from RTE meat vendors (n = 300) and consumers (n = 382). Salmonella enterica detection was done according to the United State of America (USA)-Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) Bacteriological Analytical Manual. The disk diffusion method was used for antibiotic resistance testing. The results revealed that most of the respondents had heard of meat safety (98.3% vendors, 91.8% consumers) and knew that meat could be contaminated by poor handling (100.0% vendors, 88.9% consumers). The respondents knew that regular hand washing reduced the risk of meat contamination (100.0% vendors, 94.0% consumers). Responses to the practices of meat safety by vendors were generally better. A very low Salmonella enterica prevalence was observed in the samples, ranging between 0.0 and 4.0% for guinea fowl and beef, respectively. However, the six isolates obtained were resistant to five of the nine antibiotics tested, with all isolates displaying different resistance profiles. Overall, the good knowledge and practice of meat safety demonstrated by the respondents corroborated the negligible prevalence of Salmonella in this study, reiterating the importance of vendor meat safety knowledge. However, the presence of resistant Salmonella enterica in some of the meat samples, albeit in a very low prevalence, warrants stricter sanitary measures and greater meat safety awareness in the general population to prevent meat-borne infections and potential transmission of drug-resistant bacteria to humans.
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author	Martin Aduah Frederick Adzitey Daniel Gyamfi Amoako Akebe Luther King Abia Rejoice Ekli Gabriel Ayum Teye Amir H. M. Shariff Nurul Huda
author_facet	Martin Aduah Frederick Adzitey Daniel Gyamfi Amoako Akebe Luther King Abia Rejoice Ekli Gabriel Ayum Teye Amir H. M. Shariff Nurul Huda
author_sort	Martin Aduah
title	Not All Street Food Is Bad: Low Prevalence of Antibiotic-Resistant Salmonella enterica in Ready-to-Eat (RTE) Meats in Ghana Is Associated with Good Vendors’ Knowledge of Meat Safety
title_short	Not All Street Food Is Bad: Low Prevalence of Antibiotic-Resistant Salmonella enterica in Ready-to-Eat (RTE) Meats in Ghana Is Associated with Good Vendors’ Knowledge of Meat Safety
title_full	Not All Street Food Is Bad: Low Prevalence of Antibiotic-Resistant Salmonella enterica in Ready-to-Eat (RTE) Meats in Ghana Is Associated with Good Vendors’ Knowledge of Meat Safety
title_fullStr	Not All Street Food Is Bad: Low Prevalence of Antibiotic-Resistant Salmonella enterica in Ready-to-Eat (RTE) Meats in Ghana Is Associated with Good Vendors’ Knowledge of Meat Safety
title_full_unstemmed	Not All Street Food Is Bad: Low Prevalence of Antibiotic-Resistant Salmonella enterica in Ready-to-Eat (RTE) Meats in Ghana Is Associated with Good Vendors’ Knowledge of Meat Safety
title_sort	not all street food is bad: low prevalence of antibiotic-resistant salmonella enterica in ready-to-eat (rte) meats in ghana is associated with good vendors’ knowledge of meat safety
publisher	MDPI
publishDate	2021
url	https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34649/1/Abstract.pdf https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34649/2/Full.pdf https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34649/ https://www.mdpi.com/2304-8158/10/5/1011 https://doi.org/10.3390/foods10051011
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Not All Street Food Is Bad: Low Prevalence of Antibiotic-Resistant Salmonella enterica in Ready-to-Eat (RTE) Meats in Ghana Is Associated with Good Vendors’ Knowledge of Meat Safety

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