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

Source: authors’ construct (2019).