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Examination of food-borne
parasites in Northern-part of Nigeria was evaluated. Two
thousand four hundred and twenty-six samples comprising
Banana (333) Tomatoes (251) Orange (97) Egg plant (348) Okro
(414), Pepper (312), Vegetables (Amarathus cruentus) (150)
Pumpkin leaf (90), Water leaf (100) Bitter leaf (90) Onion
(191) and Jute leaf (50) were tested by standard
microbiological methods to determine parasite contamination.
Out of these, a total of 368 samples were contaminated.
Pepper recorded the highest mean abundance of 0.26, follow
by Bitter leaf 0.16 no cases of contamination in Jute leaf
in all the markets, parasites eggs of Trichuris trichiura,
Ascaris, Enterobium vermicularis were highly detected in
that order. These findings demonstrate that parasitological
quality of fresh fruits and vegetables sampled; suggest that
the risk of food borne diseases from raw fruits and
vegetables was not so high. But there is still the need to
enforce good hygiene practices to avoid contamination of
fresh fruits and vegetables.
Keywords: Fruits,
vegetables, contamination, Kogi, Nigeria |
