The Health Implications of Street Vended Foods in Nigeria: A Food Safety Approach -A Review

This review work emphasizes the value of food, the idea of selling street food, the different kinds of sellers, the locations of the vending machines, and the people who buy street food. Along with food handling procedures, it addressed the main factors that lead to microbial contamination of food, including the location of preparation, food raw materials, cooking and serving utensils, food packaging materials, the setting in which food is prepared or sold, water sources, dust, sewage, and refuse, as well as food vendors' personal hygiene. The microbiological safety of food as well as other hygienic issues related to food safety were also highlighted in this work. Food-borne diseases, such as botulism, typhoid fever, salmonellosis, bacillary dysentery, and Escherichia coli, Amoebic dysentery, Shigellosis, and so on, are frequently linked to foods that are sold. It also butressed food control systems such as GAP, GHP, GMP and HACCP; implementation of food safety policies and the benefits of food control systems.