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The Impact of Food Services Protocol on the Quality and Safety of Egg Served by Hospitals in Khartoum State, Sudan

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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This work purpose was to assess the safety and quality of hospital meals and services. The egg was taken in several
phases of the hospital food chain (raw food, storage, preparation, processing, and display) to highlight the cause
of nutrient, safety, and quality changes in patient meals in Khartoum State. Chemical composition (moisture content,
ash, protein and fat percents),total titrable acidity and pH value) and microbial loads (total viable count, yeast and
mould, total Coliform bacteria, Salmonella and Staphylococcus spp.) were measured at all stages. The moisture content
of eggs showed a significant (P≤0.05) slight decrease in private hospitals and a potential increase in government
hospitals, while fat content showed a slight non-significant decrease in all samples, except for the sample taken from
(D) governmental hospital, which showed a significant potential increase at the end-stage (processing and display
stages), There were no significant differences (P≤0.05) in ash content, titratable acidity and pH served at all hospitals
in all chain stages. Total bacterial count served at hospitals, all samples showed a significant (P≤0.05) decrease during
food chain stages and total yeasts and moulds content served at privatized hospitals.

DOI

10.21608/ajfs.2022.255781

Keywords

hospital, governmental, egg, food chain, microbial load

Authors

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Faten

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Farahat

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department of food science and technology, faculty of agriculture, omdurman islamic university

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fatimahfarahat02@gmail.com

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Mustafa,

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, Abdelhakam

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H.M.1

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Nada,

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ElKhir

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M.

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Volume

19

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1

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36303

Issue Date

2022-06-01

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2022-04-09

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2022-08-22

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16

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24

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1687-3920

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Alexandria Journal of Food Science and Technology

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https://ajfs.journals.ekb.eg/

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The Impact of Food Services Protocol on the Quality and Safety of Egg Served by Hospitals in Khartoum State, Sudan

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22 Jan 2023