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Personal hygiene and bowls sanitation of meatball cart traders
Hasnawati Amqam1, Syamsuar Manyullei1, Andi Wahyuni2
1Environmental Health Department, Faculty of Public Health, Hasanuddin University, Makassar 90245, Indonesia.
Objective:
The purpose of this study is to describe the personal hygiene and sanitation of food cutlery (bowl) on meatball cart traders at Makassar City.
Methods:
This research using descriptive observational with non-probability sampling techniques and accidental sampling method.
Results:
80% respondents had good personal hygiene. Almost all respondents qualify the requirement of hand and finger hygiene, as well as hair hygiene. For clothes hygiene indicators, most qualify the requirements. As for the indicators of handwashing practices and the use of gloves, all respondents did not qualify the requirements. While the results of research related to food cutlery sanitation showed that knowledge that 86.7% were high, but many still did not know washing water requirements and bowl conditions when in storage.
Conclusion:
Most handlers attitude was categorized as adequate. It is suggested that the meatball cart traders always pay attention to hand hygiene and sanitation of cutlery to avoid bacterial contamination.
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