Content area
Full Text
Introduction
In Indonesia, more school students are depending on street foods for their breakfast and meal as the number of housewives and mothers going to work has raised1. In Asian countries, street food at one hand, plays an important role in the provision of daily food as it supplies 88% energy intake2. On the other hand, street foods pose food born health risks. Studies from Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Hong Kong, and Bangladesh revealed that most of street food contained bacteria, textile dyes and formaldehyde3−7. A study in Bekasi District, West Java, Indonesia found that four out of eight street food samples contained textile dye, artificial sweetener (saccharine, cyclamate) and formaldehyde8. Another study in 2015 from 13 provinces in Indonesia showed 45% of street food out of 2984 food samples sold around elementary school and surrounding area were physically (15%), chemically (5%) and microbiologically (20%) contaminated by hazardous materials9. Therefore, street food safety is very important to prevent food borne diseases such as diarrhea and food poisoning10. Moreover studies from Turkey, Malaysia, and Indonesia revealed that most of the elementary school students have poor knowledge about street food safety11−15. Therefore, elementary schools constituted places where food poisoning cases mostly occurred after the household9.
Several food borne diseases from contaminated street food and beverages were diarrhea and hepatitis. A study in Indonesia taken from population of all households in 33 provinces, 497 districts/cities using cross sectional study design reported 35971 (3.5%) cases of diarrhea and 12333 (1.2%) cases of hepatitis out of 1,027,763 (3.5%) samples. The leading types of hepatitis were Hepatitis B (21.8%), Hepatitis A (19.3%) and Hepatitis C (2,5%)16. In 2015, food poisoning cases in Indonesia were reported 88 cases with 525 casualties, in which 13 (15%) of them were caused by street food 9. At the same year, the worst cases of the food poisoning occurred in West Java. One case occurred in a Public Elementary School (PES) Tasikmalaya City resulted in 117 students suffered street food poisoning9. Another case occurred in Cimahi City, where 38 students from four elementary schools (SD) suffered from food poisoning after consuming street food sold around...