Street Pork Vendors' Hygiene and Safety Practices and Their Determinants in the Cape Metropole District, South Africa.

J Food Prot

Department of Animal Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1, Matieland, Stellenbosch 7606, South Africa. Electronic address:

Published: January 2024

South Africa's rapid urbanization and high unemployment rates pushed people into street food vending as an alternative source of livelihood. Hygiene and food safety have become a concern under these circumstances owing to foodborne illnesses and associated deaths. A survey tool with 38 structured questions was administered to 172 to assess pork vendors' hygiene and safety practices and identify their determinants in five low-income high-density suburbs of the Cape Metropole District, South Africa. Overall, vendors washed their hands before and after handling meat (66% of respondents) and cleaned the working area daily (51%), pork storage area daily (60%), and utensils and equipment before and after use (36%) with most of them using detergents as the main cleaning agent (70%). A quarter of the interviewed vendors experienced meat spoilage during storage, and 80% had no training in hygiene and safe food handling. The marginal effects of logistic regression findings showed that vending income increased the vendor's probability to wash hands, and clean vending stalls, storage areas, utensils, and equipment. The likelihood of vendors cleaning pork storage areas, utensils, and equipment increased with the increase in female participants. The likelihood of hand washing and vending stall cleaning increased by 1% for each extra year of schooling. Strategies aimed at improving meat hygiene and safety practices of vendors in the surveyed areas should target vulnerable groups, especially less educated females depending solely on vending income.

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