Background: Quality, hygiene and food safety are the pressing questions that affects the public. Objectives: To discover some remarks on the microbiological contamination of food selling on the street in Thanh Hoa city and various suitable solutions in management and deployment. Subjects and method: A cross-sectional survey on the microbiological contamination of 310 different samples of food hawking on the street of 11 communes in Thanh Hoa province. Results:310 different samples were collected in Thanh Hoa city in 2007, we found micro biological contamination is still high, the highest rate was spring roll (76,7% contamined), lowest was food prepared from fish and other fish products (43,3%). Conclusion: The contamination rate varies with different organisms. The rate of food contaminated with 2 organisms was high (91.1%).To ensure the health of the public; it is necessary to have the measures to ensure that sellers provide the public with safe and hygienic food. \r\n', u'\r\n', u'\r\n', u'
microbiological contamination of the food selling