Microbial contamination of kitchen instruments as a minatory to human health

Background: As all we know, nourishment is one of the human's essential requirements in order to provide energy and furthermore play an important role in people's daily activities. By the daily and frequently use of kitchens to provide and process foods and its relationship with human health, it's necessary to evaluate the rate of contaminations. Aim: To evaluate the rate of microbial contaminations which involves the instruments and equipment that exist in almost every kitchen. Methods: In this descriptive cross-sectional study, a total of 9965 samples were taken from different instruments of many domestic kitchens, restaurants, hotels, and food processing kiosks which are selected randomly before. The specimens were examined precisely by use of principal scientific sources and standard bacteriological methods which are mentioned farther. Generally all the species with their bacterial load of up to 100,000 CFU/gr were designated detrimental and were brought on table-2; even though those between 50,000 and 100,000 CFU/gr were repeated for sampling and reassessed. Although under 50,000 colonies of bacteria/gr are also considered normal and were excluded from the samples. Result: The results reveals a total of 10 different bacterial isolates like Staphylococcus aureus (15.05),Staphylococcus epidermidis (16.50), Escherichia coli (18.27), Shigella spp. (0.91), Bacillusspp. (13.02), Enterobacter spp. (9.40),Pseudomonas (2.11), Enterococcus spp. (2.37), etc. and amount of fungal contaminations (12.81) exist in some instruments. The results obtained in this study proves some microbes are able to draw on some discomforts for people and can be harmful to social health; thus by informing and warning people of bad consequences which comes afterward by improper disinfection of utensils like dishes, pans, pots, spoons and forks, etcas well as using correct cleaning methods for these instruments, can be usefulto decrease the transmission of infections properly. © 2020 Lahore Medical And Dental College. All rights reserved.