Document Type : Original Article
Authors
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Home Economic Department, Faculty of Specific Education, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt.
2
Home Economic Department, Faculty of Specific Education, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
Abstract
Samples of some fast foods were collected from different restaurants in Qena city during winter season (2007/2008) to investigate their microbiological quality. The questionnaire appeared that most common fast foods were: bean cake (tamia or flafel) sandwiches, liver sandwiches, koshari dishes, faba bean (medamis) sandwiches, hawawshi sandwiches, béchamel macaroni dishes, shawerma sandwiches, luncheon sandwiches and roasted kofta sandwiches. All investigated fast foods were contaminated by one or more of examined bacteria i.e; Bacillus cereus, Shigella spp.,Salmonellaspp., Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, and Pseudomonas spp., while, fungi such as Rhizops spp. and Pencillum spp. were found in some tested samples.
Most of investigated samples tended to have some pathogenic count higher than the recommendation safety limit proposed by Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality Control (EOSQC), which means that those foods may be unsafe enough for human feeding. Thus, the consumption of fast foods outdoors should be limited and substituted with anther more healthy foods.
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