Food hygiene and safety among food vendors in Ghana (eBook)

Project Report from the year 2017 in the subject Health - Public Health, , language: English, abstract: Food hygiene is a very important matter to ensure the health and development of state members. This study investigates good food hygiene practices among food vendors in the Kotobabi market, the Spintex Road in Accra and the safety of consumer health. For this purpose a qualitative research approach and a case study research design were adopted. The study revealed that about 50% of the food vendors do not have much knowledge of food hygiene and safety. Furthermore, they also do not have clean and hygienic facilities for their production. However, the other 50% are improving their standards to produce safe and hygienic food products to ensure health and safety for their costumers.

Asamoah Larbi holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Laboratory Technology and currently an MPhil Statistics Student. He has worked as a Quality Control/ Quality Assurance Scientist in both Pharmaceutical and Food industries for over eight years. He also has about two years experience in in clinical laboratory science.