title: Food Safety Challenges towards Safe, Healthy, and Nutritious Street Foods in Bangladesh.
abstract: The street foods play an important socioeconomic role in meeting food and nutritional requirements of city consumers at affordable prices to the lower and middle income people. The number of food poisoning notifications rose steadily worldwide since the inception of E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in the 1980s to date. This may be partly attributed to improved surveillance, increased global trade and travel, changes in modern food production, the impact of modern lifestyles, changes in food consumption, and the emergence of new pathogens. Consumer's knowledge and attitude may influence food safety behavior and practice. For the sake of public health, it is important to understand the epidemiology of foodborne illnesses that help in prevention and control efforts, appropriately allocating resources to control foodborne illness, monitoring and evaluation of food safety measures, development of new food safety standards, and assessment of the cost-effectiveness of interventions. This review paper described the sociodemographic characteristics, common hazards, and occupational hazards of street food vendors, microbial risk associated with street food, food safety interventions and control measures, regulatory aspects and legal requirements, financial constraints, and attitudes.
authors.affiliation: Center for Advanced Research in Sciences, University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh.
authors.forename: Md
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Khairuzzaman
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Jagannath University, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh.
authors.forename: Fatema Moni
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-7749-4844
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Chowdhury
authors.affiliation: Center for Advanced Research in Sciences, University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh.
authors.forename: Sharmin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zaman
authors.affiliation: Center for Advanced Research in Sciences, University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh.
authors.forename: Arafat
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Al Mamun
authors.affiliation: Center for Advanced Research in Sciences, University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh.
authors.forename: Md Latiful
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Bari