Evaluation of the Effects of Food Safety Training on the Microbiological Load Present in Equipment, Surfaces, Utensils, and Food Manipulator’s Hands in Restaurants

Restaurants are a place were a lot of people go to have a delicious meal and have a good time however it is in the hands of the restaurant staff to provide a good environment and ensure the tasty meals are microbiologically safe. Food training comes a long way in this regard to help give that qualit...

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Main Authors: Miguel Castro, Kamila Soares, Carlos Ribeiro, Alexandra Esteves
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-11-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2673-9976/31/1/10
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description Restaurants are a place were a lot of people go to have a delicious meal and have a good time however it is in the hands of the restaurant staff to provide a good environment and ensure the tasty meals are microbiologically safe. Food training comes a long way in this regard to help give that quality to the consumer but there are a lot of restaurants which workers do not have proper training for handling food or keeping the establishment’s food safe. This study revealed that in general there was more microbiological analysis non-compliant with food safety limits before the food safety training. After the training there was a reduction in the number of values exceeding the safety limits with reductions in microbiological load of above 80%.
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spelling doaj-art-deb9a230507c451fa9974d76ca044eeb2025-08-20T02:00:29ZengMDPI AGBiology and Life Sciences Forum2673-99762023-11-013111010.3390/ECM2023-16413Evaluation of the Effects of Food Safety Training on the Microbiological Load Present in Equipment, Surfaces, Utensils, and Food Manipulator’s Hands in RestaurantsMiguel Castro0Kamila Soares1Carlos Ribeiro2Alexandra Esteves3Department of Veterinary Science, School of Agrarian and Veterinary Science (ECAV), University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), 5000-801 Vila Real, PortugalDepartment of Veterinary Science, School of Agrarian and Veterinary Science (ECAV), University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), 5000-801 Vila Real, PortugalDepartment of Agronomy, ECAV, UTAD, 5000-801 Vila Real, PortugalDepartment of Veterinary Science, School of Agrarian and Veterinary Science (ECAV), University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), 5000-801 Vila Real, PortugalRestaurants are a place were a lot of people go to have a delicious meal and have a good time however it is in the hands of the restaurant staff to provide a good environment and ensure the tasty meals are microbiologically safe. Food training comes a long way in this regard to help give that quality to the consumer but there are a lot of restaurants which workers do not have proper training for handling food or keeping the establishment’s food safe. This study revealed that in general there was more microbiological analysis non-compliant with food safety limits before the food safety training. After the training there was a reduction in the number of values exceeding the safety limits with reductions in microbiological load of above 80%.https://www.mdpi.com/2673-9976/31/1/10food safetyhygienemicrobiological analysistraining
spellingShingle Miguel Castro
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Evaluation of the Effects of Food Safety Training on the Microbiological Load Present in Equipment, Surfaces, Utensils, and Food Manipulator’s Hands in Restaurants
Biology and Life Sciences Forum
food safety
hygiene
microbiological analysis
training
title Evaluation of the Effects of Food Safety Training on the Microbiological Load Present in Equipment, Surfaces, Utensils, and Food Manipulator’s Hands in Restaurants
title_full Evaluation of the Effects of Food Safety Training on the Microbiological Load Present in Equipment, Surfaces, Utensils, and Food Manipulator’s Hands in Restaurants
title_fullStr Evaluation of the Effects of Food Safety Training on the Microbiological Load Present in Equipment, Surfaces, Utensils, and Food Manipulator’s Hands in Restaurants
title_full_unstemmed Evaluation of the Effects of Food Safety Training on the Microbiological Load Present in Equipment, Surfaces, Utensils, and Food Manipulator’s Hands in Restaurants
title_short Evaluation of the Effects of Food Safety Training on the Microbiological Load Present in Equipment, Surfaces, Utensils, and Food Manipulator’s Hands in Restaurants
title_sort evaluation of the effects of food safety training on the microbiological load present in equipment surfaces utensils and food manipulator s hands in restaurants
topic food safety
hygiene
microbiological analysis
training
url https://www.mdpi.com/2673-9976/31/1/10
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