Kondisi Sanitasi, Personal Hygiene Dan Cemaran Mikroba Pada Ikan Asar Di Pasar Tradisional Kota Jayapura

Abstract

Smoked fish products can harm consumers due to bacterial contamination. Microbial contamination in smoked fish is caused by the smoking process, and the sanitation and personal hygiene of workers is low. Objective: To determine the sanitation conditions, personal hygiene, and microbial contamination of asar fish in traditional markets. Method: The type of research used is analytic observational study with cross-sectional design and the total population of the research sample is 24 asar fish traders in traditional markets in Jayapura City. The sampling technique used purposive sampling, with the inclusion criteria, namely asar fish samples taken from traders in traditional markets, willing to be respondents, and met during research. Data were collected using checklist for the sanitary conditions and personal hygiene. Laboratory tests are carried out for microbiological examination of fish samples whose results will be seen in accordance with the provisions of SNI 7388:2009 concerning the Indonesian National Standard for the maximum limit of microbial contamination in food. Data analysis using univariate analysis. Result: The results showed that 24 traders (100%) didn’t meet the sanitary conditions for selling places, 14 traders (58.3%) didn’t meet the personal hygiene requirements, and microbial contamination as many as 24 fish (100%) were negative. Conclusion: The traders sanitation and personal hygiene conditions did not meet the requirements and the microbial contamination in asar fish was negative.