Assessment of the Hygienic Condition of Chicken Shops in Alexandria and its Impact on the Bacteriological Quality of the Sold Carcasses
Nasr, H., Omara, A., Salem, E., Fawzi, M. (2008). Assessment of the Hygienic Condition of Chicken Shops in Alexandria and its Impact on the Bacteriological Quality of the Sold Carcasses. EKB Journal Management System, 38(Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of the High Institute of Public Health "AlexHealth 2008"), 87-101. doi: 10.21608/jhiph.2008.22501
Heba Nasr; Adel Omara; Eglal G. Salem; Mohamed Fawzi. "Assessment of the Hygienic Condition of Chicken Shops in Alexandria and its Impact on the Bacteriological Quality of the Sold Carcasses". EKB Journal Management System, 38, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of the High Institute of Public Health "AlexHealth 2008", 2008, 87-101. doi: 10.21608/jhiph.2008.22501
Nasr, H., Omara, A., Salem, E., Fawzi, M. (2008). 'Assessment of the Hygienic Condition of Chicken Shops in Alexandria and its Impact on the Bacteriological Quality of the Sold Carcasses', EKB Journal Management System, 38(Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of the High Institute of Public Health "AlexHealth 2008"), pp. 87-101. doi: 10.21608/jhiph.2008.22501
Nasr, H., Omara, A., Salem, E., Fawzi, M. Assessment of the Hygienic Condition of Chicken Shops in Alexandria and its Impact on the Bacteriological Quality of the Sold Carcasses. EKB Journal Management System, 2008; 38(Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of the High Institute of Public Health "AlexHealth 2008"): 87-101. doi: 10.21608/jhiph.2008.22501

Assessment of the Hygienic Condition of Chicken Shops in Alexandria and its Impact on the Bacteriological Quality of the Sold Carcasses

Journal of High Institute of Public Health
Article 6, Volume 38, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of the High Institute of Public Health "AlexHealth 2008", November 2008, Page 87-101  XML PDF (242.94 K)
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.21608/jhiph.2008.22501
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Authors
Heba Nasr* ; Adel Omara; Eglal G. Salem; Mohamed Fawzi
Department of Nutrition, High Institute of Public Health, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
Abstract
Assessment of the hygienic condition of 15 chicken shops in Alexandria revealed that carcass handling had the highest mean score percentages in all zones ranging from 69.7% to 83.3% but unfortunately personal hygiene was given the lowest score percentages ranging from 34.5% to 46.9%. Moreover, there were no significant differences among different zones concerning the mean score percentages of different sanitation checklist parameters. Bacteriological analysis of 198 samples; 135 chicken carcass’s washes, 45 scalding water samples and 18 defeathering machine washes revealed that washes collected after defeathering had the worst bacteriological profile regarding the counts of aerobic mesophiles (3.7×107 CFU/100 ml) and coliforms (8.0×104 MPN/100 ml). Carcass washes collected after evisceration and washing from most zones were contaminated with lower bacterial loads than either after scalding or defeathering, but they showed higher contamination with coagulase positive staphylococci Within the same zone, the defeathering machine washes were usually of worse bacteriological quality than scalding water.
Keywords
Chicken Shops; Hygienic Condition; Sanitation-Checklist; Aerobic Mesophilic Counts; Staphylococci; Coliform; fecal coliforms; Carcass Handling; Personal Hygiene
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