Overview of Snack Food Sanitation at Night Market Food Vendors, Larantuka City Park, East Flores Regency

Abstract

<jats:p>Food sanitation hygiene is an effort to control the factors of food, people, places, and equipment that can or may cause disease or health problems. The purpose of this study was to find out a description of food sanitation at the night market food vendors at Larantuka city park, East Flores district. This research is quantitative descriptive. The population and samples in this study were selling carts, totaling 13 carts and food handlers, totaling 13 people. The research sample amounted to 13 people with the sampling criteria were people who directly handled food. Analysis of the data used in univariate analysis. The results showed that most traders did not meet the requirements for personal hygiene of food handlers (69.2%), some traders met the requirements in tableware (76.9%), some of the merchants met the requirements in clean water and food ingredients (53, 8%) and all food traders do not meet the requirements in hawker facilities (100%). It is recommended to night market traders to improve personal hygiene and food sanitation so that the quality of the food they manage is guaranteed.</jats:p>