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Microbiological Quality of Crepe Sandwich in Relation to Safety and Hygiene

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Last updated: 05 Jan 2025

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Food Adulteration
Food Contaminants
Food Hygiene
Food Microbiology
Food Safety

Abstract

Fast foods got acceptance and became very popular among peoples who includes a large variety of foods, one of them is Crepe sandwich. Many fast food shops lakes the hygiene and poses sever microbiological risks to consumers. The present study was carried out to investigate the microbiological quality of traditional Crepe sandwiches sold in the fast food shops in Giza Governorate. The following microbial examination were performed; TCC (Total bacterial count), Yeast and mold count, Coliforms count, ASF (aerobic spore former count), AnSF (anaerobic spore former count), Enterococci count, Bacillus cereus count, Total staphylococci count, Staphylococcus aureus count and isolation of Salmonella, Yersinia and Escherichia coli. The obtained results revealed a varied degree of bad handling preparation and cooking of Crepe sandwich sold in fast food shops in Giza Governorate, Egypt. The authors recommended the producer to increase the hygienic quality of raw material used and during preparation to improve the quality of the final product.

DOI

10.21608/ejfsj.2017.169603

Keywords

Crepe, APC, coliforms, Bacillus, enterococci, S. aureus

Authors

First Name

Ayah

Last Name

Abdel-Salam

MiddleName

B.

Affiliation

Food Hygiene and Control Dept., Faculty of Veterinary medicine, Cairo University, Egypt

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City

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First Name

Hamdy

Last Name

Zaki

MiddleName

M.B.A.

Affiliation

Food Hygiene and Control Dept., Faculty of Veterinary medicine, Cairo University, Egypt

Email

dvm.hamdy@gmail.com

City

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Orcid

0000-0003-4571-2223

Volume

4

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

24743

Issue Date

2017-12-01

Receive Date

2017-11-15

Publish Date

2017-12-15

Page Start

1

Page End

9

Print ISSN

2314-5676

Online ISSN

2735-5330

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https://ejfsj.journals.ekb.eg/article_169603.html

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1,676

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Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Food Safety

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https://ejfsj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Microbiological Quality of Crepe Sandwich in Relation to Safety and Hygiene

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Created At

23 Jan 2023