Presence of microorganisms in street beverages that are sold by street vendors at Puncak Alam

Street food is known as ready-to-eat food and a beverage or drinks sold by a food vendor on the street to the public at affordable prices and various choices. Therefore, more than 2.5 million people worldwide choose to buy street food every day. However, the food and beverage preparation at street vendors has posed a concern on the level of hygienist food served and sold by the food vendor. Therefore, this study is carried out to investigate the microorganism contamination level found in beverages and environmental swabs sold by street stall at Puncak Alam. Besides, this study also aims to identify the relationship between microorganisms found in the beverages and the microorganism in environmental swabs from the street stalls. In total, 26 street stalls are involved in this study with 104 sample is taken that consists of 52 sample from beverage and another half is from environmental swab sample. The environmental swab sample is taken from beverage scoop and preparation area. As a result, there are presence of microorganisms in beverage and environmental swab but not all street stalls are involved. There is different level of microorganism has been identified in each of the beverage and environmental swab for each street stall. Microorganism contain in beverage and environmental swab have low positive correlation with (r = 0.291) and there is no significance between the two of them due to (p > 0.05). To be summarize, the food handler required to have more knowledge on preparing beverage in hygiene way by attending food handling courses and practice the knowledge well. This is to minimize the risk of the beverage from get contaminated with microorganisms and safe for human consumption.