An Evaluation of the Hygiene Practices of Polish Street Food Vendors in Selected Food Trucks and Stands

Today, street food vending is becoming a dynamically developing food industry in Europe, including Poland. Lifestyle changes and socioeconomic factors, especially among young consumers, make it a convenient food alternative, even in countries without this tradition. The aim of the study was to evaluate hygiene conditions and practices in selected street food facilities in Poland. The study was carried out in accordance with an observation checklist developed on the basis of the hygienic requirements of the European Union. The study covered 550 randomly selected street food vendors in Poland in 10 cities. The hygiene of street food outlets was assessed in three aspects: ensuring proper production conditions, hygiene of production and distribution, and hygiene of personnel. The evaluation of street food outlets showed that the level of hygiene was not fully acceptable. A small percentage of the examined objects satisfactorily fulfilled the requirements of the production conditions, production and distribution hygiene, and staff hygiene. The proposed hygienic checklist for quick daily monitoring of street food outlets can be used to perform internal and external inspections. It seems that specific codes of conduct for European street foods facilities are necessary.

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Food Safety Knowledge and Hygiene Practices among Food Vendors of Street Food Trucks

Pharmacophore ◽

10.51847/dp2kdjwpqd ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 83-92

Author(s):

Hussam AlHazmi ◽

Rajaa Al-Raddadi ◽

Wael Alzhrani ◽

Khaled Alzahrani ◽

Adel Turkistani ◽

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Keyword(s):

Food Safety ◽

Street Food ◽

Food Trucks ◽

Hygiene Practices ◽

Safety Knowledge

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Consumer Eating Behavior and Opinions about the Food Safety of Street Food in Poland

Nutrients ◽

10.3390/nu13020594 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 594

Author(s):

Michał Wiatrowski ◽

Ewa Czarniecka-Skubina ◽

Joanna Trafiałek

Keyword(s):

Consumer Behavior ◽

Food Safety ◽

Fast Food ◽

Consumer Preference ◽

Quality Of Services ◽

Street Food ◽

Food Outlets ◽

Hygiene Practices ◽

Eating Out

Street food plays an increasingly important role in the nutrition of the inhabitants of European cities. Our study aimed to analyze Polish consumers’ attitudes toward food offered in street food outlets, consumers’ eating out behavior, and the factors that determine their choice of meals from street food vendors. A survey was conducted of 1300 adult respondents who eat street food in Poland. The research enabled a detailed and comprehensive assessment of consumer behavior toward the use of street food outlets, as well as consumer opinions on vendors’ functioning, including hygiene and meals offered. Factors determining the frequency of street food consumption, preferred food types, and factors influencing the use of such outlets were identified. The most important factors were the quality of services and meals, personal preferences and price. Using cluster analysis, consumer profiles based on the types of street food outlets and food preferred were identified. Four main street food consumer preference profiles were identified: ‘burger-enthusiasts’, ‘kebab-enthusiasts’ and ‘ice-cream enthusiasts’, and ‘no specific-oriented consumers’. The Internet and social media were identified as information and promotion channels for this form of gastronomy. Results also revealed Polish consumer behavior and opinions about the food safety of street food in Poland. In summary, in Poland the habits of eating typical Polish homemade dishes is being replaced by eating meals in street food outlets, which can be classified as fast food. Increasing consumer knowledge and awareness of the quality and safety of street food may counteract improper hygiene practices of sellers.

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Street Food Vending and Hygiene Practices and Implications for Consumers

Journal of Economics and Behavioral Studies ◽

10.22610/jebs.v6i3.482 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 188-193 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

R. Kok

Keyword(s):

Small Business ◽

South African ◽

Poor Quality ◽

Lifestyle Changes ◽

The South ◽

Employment Creation ◽

Street Vendors ◽

Street Food ◽

Hygiene Practices ◽

African Context

Street food vending has and is becoming globally a convenient and in most cases an essential service. Lifestyle changes and socio economic factors creates very little space for consumers to look at other alternatives one of which would be to prepare oneâ€™s own meal. Street food therefore becomes an easy and economic means to acquire prepared food. Safe hygiene practices should become integral to the vendor as the product will be consumed by people of all ages and many may be vulnerable to poor quality food. The street food vendor in turn relies on this service as a means of employment and income generation. The competition between vendors is increased and the pressure to cut corners becomes a reality and one significant corner is appropriate hygiene practices. The practice of appropriate hygiene practices is also as a result of total ignorance of many vendors and the nature of the food that they prepare. The paper explores lessons from various countries in respect of dealing with ensuring good hygiene practices of street food vendors and its usefulness to the South African perspective. One such initiative is the programme launched by the Indiaâ€™s Food Safety and Standards Authority and the National Association of Street Vendors of India. South African street food industry is rapidly increasing in size and proportion. Several studies have been undertaken to look at this operation from various perspectives including hygiene practices and small business. Employment creation has become a national imperative of the country and small business development is seen as a significant component to employment creation. This paper sets out to establish the global practices in street food vending from a hygiene perspective and its relevance to the South African context.

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An Evaluation of the Hygiene Practices of European Street Food Vendors and a Preliminary Estimation of Food Safety for Consumers, Conducted in Paris

Journal of Food Protection ◽

10.4315/0362-028x.jfp-18-165 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 81 (10) ◽

pp. 1614-1621 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

EWA CZARNIECKA-SKUBINA ◽

JOANNA TRAFIAŁEK ◽

MICHAŁ WIATROWSKI ◽

ARTUR GŁUCHOWSKI

Keyword(s):

Internal Audit ◽

Personal Hygiene ◽

Food Hygiene ◽

Self Assessment ◽

Street Vendor ◽

Street Food ◽

Hygiene Practices ◽

Production And Distribution ◽

Remedial Actions ◽

Education Tool

ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to evaluate hygiene conditions and practices in selected street food facilities in Paris, France. One hundred twenty mobile food establishments were studied: kiosks, 66 (55%); stands, 32 (26.7%); and food trucks, 22 (18.3%). Inspection of street food vendors and short interviews with staff using a specially designed checklist revealed that none of them were entirely hygienic. The hygiene conditions of the facilities themselves were the most satisfactory (77% of them were up to standard), but hygiene was less so for production and distribution processes (65% were satisfactory) and personal hygiene (67% were satisfactory). A significant (P ≤ 0.05) correlation between the general hygiene status and the hygiene conditions of the production and distribution processes (r = 0.86) and the hygiene practices of workers (r = 0.86) was found. The instances of noncompliance that were found may affect the safety of street-vended food. Because of its increasing popularity, it is important to correct poor hygiene practices. It is very important to identify common instances of noncompliance for street food facilities and to develop real remedial actions. Procedures to control the hygiene of street food vendors should also be developed. The checklist, which was specially designed to evaluate street vendor outlets, could also be used to pre-assess the hygiene conditions of production by those responsible for food hygiene. Furthermore, it could serve as a checklist for self-assessment (internal audit) by the vendors themselves and be adopted as a consumer education tool, to increase awareness of food hygiene of a catering facility.

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Street Food and Food Trucks: Old and New Trends in Urban Gastronomy

Gastronomy and Urban Space - The Urban Book Series ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-34492-4_17 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 309-327

Author(s):

Andrzej Kowalczyk ◽

Magdalena Kubal-Czerwińska

Keyword(s):

Street Food ◽

Food Trucks

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A study on sanitation, hygiene practices and food safety knowledge among food vendors in different sectors of Chandigarh, India

Journal of Applied and Natural Science ◽

10.31018/jans.v10i3.1860 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 931-934

Author(s):

Aradhana Thakur Thakur ◽

Uttara Singh

Keyword(s):

Food Safety ◽

Data Collection ◽

Personal Hygiene ◽

Demographic Information ◽

Street Food ◽

Hygiene Practices ◽

Bare Hand ◽

Safety Knowledge ◽

The City

The present study were carried out to assess the hygiene practices and food safety among street food vendors in the city of Chandigarh. It includes 100 samples of vendors. Fifty vendors were mobile and other 50 was fixed vendors. A self planned questionnaire was used for data collection for the vendors. The questionnaire included questions about demographic information, hygiene practices and food safety. Thirty eight percent of vendors used stalls, but did not uphold their stalls well. Eighty-three per cent of the vendors had thrown garbage in the open vessel and 14.0% used dustbin for dispose garbage. Personal hygiene was also observed which indicated that the vendors never wear the head covers, handled food with bare hand and they did not wear overcoats/aprons as well. Street food vendors were not aware of hygienic and sanitary practice.

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Pathways to clean hands: highlights of successful hand hygiene implementation strategies in Europe

Eurosurveillance ◽

10.2807/ese.15.18.19560-en ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 15 (18) ◽

Author(s):

A P Magiorakos ◽

E Leens ◽

V Drouvot ◽

L May-Michelangeli ◽

C Reichardt ◽

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Keyword(s):

Hand Hygiene ◽

Implementation Strategies ◽

World Health ◽

Surveillance Systems ◽

The European Union ◽

Hygiene Practices ◽

Governmental Support ◽

Hygiene Compliance ◽

Health Organization ◽

Healthcare Associated

Hand hygiene is the most effective way to stop the spread of microorganisms and to prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAI). The World Health Organization launched the First Global Patient Safety Challenge - Clean Care is Safer Care - in 2005 with the goal to prevent HAI globally. This year, on 5 May, the WHO’s initiative SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands, which focuses on increasing awareness of and improving compliance with hand hygiene practices, celebrated its second global day. In this article, four Member States of the European Union describe strategies that were implemented as part of their national hand hygiene campaigns and were found to be noteworthy. The strategies were: governmental support, the use of indicators for hand hygiene benchmarking, developing national surveillance systems for auditing alcohol-based hand rub consumption, ensuring seamless coordination of processes between health regions in countries with regionalised healthcare systems, implementing the WHO's My Five Moments for Hand Hygiene, and auditing of hand hygiene compliance.

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Introduction

Food Trucks, Cultural Identity, and Social Justice ◽

10.7551/mitpress/9780262036573.003.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Julian Agyeman ◽

Caitlin Matthews ◽

Hannah Sobel

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Economic Development ◽

Cultural Practices ◽

The United States ◽

Community Economic Development ◽

Street Food ◽

Food Trucks ◽

City Brand ◽

Brick And Mortar ◽

State Street

The urban food scape is changing rapidly. Food trucks, which are part of a wider phenomenon of street food vending, are an increasingly common sight in many cities throughout the United States and Canada. With this rise in the popularity of food trucks, the key issue of regulatory conflicts between the state, street food vending and food truck entrepreneurs, and the wider industry as a whole, has risen to the fore. Cities have responded in various ways to increased interest in mobile food vending – some have adopted encouraging and relaxed regulations, some have attempted to harness the momentum to craft a city brand, and some have rigidly regulated food trucks in response to protest by brick-and-mortar competitors. This Introduction frames the volume through its guiding questions and a variety of lenses - community economic development, social justice, postmodernism. The Introduction also outlines the sections of the volume (Democratic vs. Regulatory Practices and Spatial-Cultural Practices) and summarizes the chapters included in each section.

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