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- Title
Microbial Quality of Hospital's food and Enteral Tube Feedings in IRAN: A Systematic Review.
- Authors
touranlou, Fateme asadi; Hashemi, Mohamad
- Abstract
Introduction: The use of safe and nutritious foods in the hospital diet is one of the effective factors in treating patients. Regarding that hospitalized people usually have a weakened immune system, hospital meals should have high safety and acceptable health quality. This study aimed to review the microbial quality of a hospital's food and enteral tube feeding (ETF) in Iranian hospitals. Method: The databases PubMed, google scholar, and ScienceDirect were searched for studies published until December 24, 2021. The Keywords included hospital catering, Enteral tube feeding, microbial contamination, hospital food. Results: The examination of the ETF samples indicated 57 % (26/45) had = 104 colony forming units (CFU) of TMB, = 10² CFU of Enterobacter spp., = 10 CFU of Klebsiella pneumonia, and = 10? CFU of Pseudomonas species. Nine out of 200 (4.50%) hospital food samples were positive for E. coli O157 and 10.28% of hospital food samples were contaminated with S. aureus strains which were entirely considerable. Discussion: The results show that there is contamination in hospital foods, but more studies are needed to make the contamination rate closer to reality. Unfortunately, there is no microbial standard for such foods in Iran. It is recommended to continuously check the microbial quality of the hospital's food.
- Subjects
TUBE feeding; MICROBIAL contamination; HOSPITAL food service; ESCHERICHIA coli; PUBMED (Online service)
- Publication
Journal of Nutrition, Fasting & Health, 2022, Vol 10, p196
- ISSN
2821-2746
- Publication type
Article