Research Article
Knowledge on Food Safety and Food-Handling Practices of Street Food Vendors in Ejisu-Juaben Municipality of Ghana
Table 3
Food-handling practices of participants.
| Variable | Frequency | Percentage |
| Handles food with bare hand | | | No | 192 | 56.47 | Yes | 148 | 43.53 |
| Customer makes contact with food | | | No | 303 | 89.12 | Yes | 37 | 10.88 |
| Uses same hand to serve and collect money | | | No | 91 | 26.76 | Yes | 249 | 73.24 |
| Food served hot | | | No | 32 | 9.41 | Yes | 308 | 90.59 |
| Food exposed to flies | | | No | 286 | 84.12 | Yes | 54 | 15.88 |
| Materials on which food is served: | | | Plate | | | No | 21 | 6.18 | Yes | 319 | 93.82 |
| Plain rubber | | | No | 11 | 3.24 | Yes | 329 | 96.76 |
| Takeaway bowl | | | No | 316 | 92.94 | Yes | 24 | 7.06 |
| Newspaper | | | No | 330 | 97.06 | Yes | 10 | 2.94 |
| Mean food-handling score (%) | 70.41 ± 19.34 |
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Source: authors’ construct (2019).
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