TY - JOUR JF - ISMJ JO - Iran South Med J VL - 17 IS - 3 PY - 2014 Y1 - 2014/8/01 TI - Risk assessment of cooking utensils role of the bacterial contamination in the hospital kitchen TT - ارزیابی ریسک ایجاد آلودگی باکتریایی مواد غذایی بیمارستانی توسط ادوات طبخ N2 - Background: Food contact surfaces are a major concern for food services facilities in controlling the spread of food borne pathogens. This study was aimed to investigate roles of food utensils in transmission of the most important bacteria associated with nosocomial infections and hospital food borne diseases in one hospital in Tehran. Materials and methods: During the three independent sampling processes, samples of common used utensils were analyzed for bacterial contamination. Through a sterile swab the samples were collected in sterile tubes and after transferring, were immediately subjected to culture on gram negative specific and general media for bacteria. Total bacterial counts of each sample were determined and their characterizations were performed by biochemical diagnostic tests according to standards methods. Results: Among the studied cooking utensils’ and food samples, the most contaminated samples were determined as samples from board and blender as 38% and 35%, respectively. The most bacteria isolated from these samples were related to species of Enterobacteriaceae, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Bacillus species that were similar to the isolates from studied food samples. Conclusion: Results of this study, in addition to high contamination rates of medical foods and utensils in their contact showed that there are significant weaknesses in proper cooking and utensils hygiene conditions in preparation and distribution of medical food in the studied hospital’s samples. SP - 336 EP - 344 AU - Majlesi Nasr, Monireh AU - jabbari, Fatemeh AU - Alebouyeh, Masoud AU - Torabi, Parisa AU - Balvayeh, Mahdi AU - Zali, Mohammad Reza AD - Research Center for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IRAN. KW - Bacterial contamination KW - Medical food KW - Cooking utensils KW - HACCP UR - http://ismj.bpums.ac.ir/article-1-546-en.html ER -