Microbial profiling of street foods of different locati ons at Dehradun city, India

Abstract

Street foods are defined as ready to eat foods and beverages sold by vendors and hawkers especially in the streets and other similar places (FAO, 2000). Existence of Street foods is because of their easy availability, variety, prevailing socio economic conditions and also the influx of unorganized labour. Though the concept of street foods was unwelcome initially, Their existence depends on certain factors such as increasing labour force and consumer demand due to rapid industrialization (Chakravarthy, 1995).