Microbiological quality assessment of locally vended and commercially packed fruit juices in Chittagong city of Bangladesh

Sultana, Farjana; Marzan, LW; Mina, Sohana Akter

doi:10.3329/jbs.v27i0.44670

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“…These findings differed from another study conducted in Wardha city of Maharashtra, India, which reported AMR to chloramphenicol in E. coli and Salmonella strains, although that study reported no resistance to ciprofloxacin [44]. In another study conducted in Dhaka, Bangladesh, that has similar sociocultural and environmental characteristics to urban Delhi, ampicillin-and chloramphenicol-resistant strains of E. coli, Salmonella and Vibrio were identified in orange juice samples [45,46].…”

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Antibiotic Resistance in Microbes from Street Fruit Drinks and Hygiene Behavior of the Vendors in Delhi, India

Sharma

Singh

Toor

et al. 2020

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Microbial contamination of fruit juices has caused major outbreaks, leading to significant morbidity and mortality in developing countries. The inept hygiene and safety practices followed by the juice vendors are the leading risk factors of the microbial contamination of juices. In this pilot study, the five most crowded markets in urban Delhi, including Kamla Nagar, University of Delhi (north campus), Tilak Nagar, Chandni Chowk, and Rohini, were selected for a questionnaire survey on the fruit juice vendors and the sampling of water used for juice preparation as well as sugarcane, orange, and mix fruit juices collected from these markets for the enumeration of total bacterial count (TBC), Escherichia coli, Salmonella, and Vibrio. Antibiotic susceptibility tests were performed using ampicillin, cefotaxime, chloramphenicol, ciprofloxacin, and imipenem. The results indicated that the majority of the vendors were not following hygiene and safety practices when compared with the recommended standard safety practices. The use of municipal water by 95% of vendors with high TBC counts might have been the major source of microbial contamination in all types of fruit juices. E. coli and Salmonella contaminations were high in sugarcane (2 × 105 colony forming units (CFU)/mL) and mix fruit (2.2 × 105 CFU/mL) juice samples, respectively. On the other hand, Vibrio was found to be absent in almost all juice samples except for orange juice. All strains were found to be susceptible to chloramphenicol, but resistant to ampicillin and cefotaxime. Only a few strains were resistant to ciprofloxacin, and only E. coli strains were resistant to imipenem. Taken together, the overall microbiological standards of fruit juices served by street vendors were not within the acceptable limits, perhaps due to the poor quality of water used to prepare juices and poor hygiene and safety practices followed by the vendors. More importantly, the isolated microbes demonstrated resistance to ampicillin and cefotaxime, which may have pressing public health implications. Post hoc power analyses identified the minimum sample size required for 80% power.

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Antibiotic Resistance in Microbes from Street Fruit Drinks and Hygiene Behavior of the Vendors in Delhi, India

Sharma

Singh

Toor

et al. 2020

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“…In comparison to our study, conducted by Sultana et al, (2019) conducted a study for microbiological quality assessment of commercially packed fruit juices. They isolated Vibrio cholerae, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and S. aureus from their samples in compared to our study in which Klebsiella and S. aureus were also isolated.…”

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“…As compared to our study, in which no sample was resistant against Levofloxacin and the maximum resistivity was exhibited against Ampicillin as 8 isolates were resistant from 16 selected isolated strains. (Sultana et al, 2019). Antibiotic resistance in bacteria is facilitated by mechanisms such as enzymatic degradation, efflux pumps, target modification, and biofilm formation.…”

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Microbiological Quality and Safety Assessment of Freshly Prepared Fruit Juices Sold in Different Areas of Lahore, Pakistan

HAZEEFA,

HASSAN,

NUMAN

et al. 2023

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Fruit juices are among the best food products with respect to the nutritional and medicinal applications. However, disaster can come along the way, as bacteria can cause spoiling of fruit juices through contaminated raw materials, extraction equipment and malpractice of handlers and results into the deleterious health effects. Numerous bacterial species including Streptococcus spp., Escherichia coli, Candida albicans, Staphylococcus aureus, Vibrio cholera, etc can be present in high concentrations in fruit juices. In the present study, a total of 164 bacterial strains were isolated from nine samples of fresh fruit juices (Carrot, Orange and sugarcane) from different areas in Lahore. Three media i.e., Nutrient agar, MacConkey agar and Eosin Methylene Blue agar (EMB) were used for enumeration and isolation of various bacterial genera. Among the total 164 isolated bacterial strains, 37 were recovered from sugarcane juice samples, 91 from carrot juice samples and 36 from orange juice samples. The most frequent strains were E. coli and Enterobaacter spp. which were most likely due to the contamination from water. A panel of 10 antibiotics including Erythromycin, Ceftizoxime, Ciprofloxacin, Tobramycin, Vancomycin, Ampicillin, Streptomycin, Polymyxin B, Levofloxacin, and Cephalexin was used to determine the antibiotics sensitivity (AST) status of the isolated strains. It was observed that Levofloxacin showed highest zones of inhibition against all the tested strains and overall, strains didn’t have significant resistance against the tested antibiotics. The practice of proper hand and fruit washing can minimize the potential threat of bacterial contamination in food products.

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“…showed highest resistance against Netilmicin (90%) followed by Ampicillin (84%). Antibiotic sensitivity of K. pneumoniae and S. aureus were found against Ciprofloxacin, Imipenem, gentamicin, levofloxacin with the exception of Amoxicillin (Sultana et al, 2019).…”

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Bacterial Evaluation of Fresh Juices Sold in Cafes and Restaurants in the City of Benghazi, Libya

Bozakouk

BaLshikh

Bumadian

2022

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Food safety is a big challenge that concern all human communities and food production factories. The information on the bacterial evaluations of fresh natural juices in the city of Benghazi remained very limited and unclear. This study was carried out to evaluate the bacterial contamination for two of the most popular selling freshly made juices, including mango and strawberry juices. The results of screening showed bacterial growth in 117 (91.41%) out of the total samples 128. The evaluation during the second season showed a higher bacterial growth rate of 96.55 %. The most predominant bacteria contaminating the targeted juices was Klebsiella pneumoniae, with an average of (36.21%), followed by fecal Escherichia coli (31.03%) for both juices. All the contaminated juices represented bacteria count out of the accepted value. Gram-negative pathogens showed resistance to limited antibiotics, including Amoxicillin, Amikacin, and Clarithromycin, whereas the Gram-positive bacteria showed higher resistance rates. This study concluded that, increase in bacterial diversity and bacterial count out of the accepted standard as well as the presence of fecal E. coli indicating a poor level of hygiene during the process of preparing juices, leading to the possibility of causing diseases and exposing people to food poisoning.

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Microbiological quality assessment of locally vended and commercially packed fruit juices in Chittagong city of Bangladesh

Cited by 4 publications

References 18 publications

Antibiotic Resistance in Microbes from Street Fruit Drinks and Hygiene Behavior of the Vendors in Delhi, India

Antibiotic Resistance in Microbes from Street Fruit Drinks and Hygiene Behavior of the Vendors in Delhi, India

Microbiological Quality and Safety Assessment of Freshly Prepared Fruit Juices Sold in Different Areas of Lahore, Pakistan

Bacterial Evaluation of Fresh Juices Sold in Cafes and Restaurants in the City of Benghazi, Libya

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