| BackgroundWith the rapid development of economic and social, people’s living standards improved ceaselessly, and their requirements on public health became increasingly stringent, especially concerned about beverage industry disinfection tableware. The tableware disinfection industry in this context came into being, and vigorously developed. The tableware centralized disinfection industry was an emerging industry derived from the restaurant industry. It traced back in southern China in the early1990s, and quickly spreaded throughout the country. Due to the advantages of its province time, effort, affordable, disinfection effect reliable, and the high degree of intensification, it played an important role to improve the quality of tableware health and to prevent the occurrence of foodborne diseases.What’s more,it had gradually become an important way of food service units, particularly small and medium-sized food and beverage service units tableware cleaned and disinfected. However, owing to the tableware disinfection is an emerging industry, it has a lot of problems,such as laws and regulations are not perfect, part of the tableware centralized disinfection units exist location and layout is unreasonable, facilities are incomplete, personnel’s cultural level is low and the lack of training, tableware disinfection is not completely, factory inspection is useless, which often causing food-borne disease.It is a serious threat to people’s health and gradually become the major food safety risk.To prevent of food-borne illness, it is essential to explore and seriously study the problems of the tableware centralized disinfection units, to make clear its internal rules, to find the relevant control measures.Improve the relevant laws and regulations, strengthen the supervision of the units, eliminate the "hidden rules" in the industry, and strengthen food safety and security of catering units, which are all significant measures to ensure the safety of food for the masses, and have a more profound practical significance for the governance of food safety in China.PurposeMaster the basic conditions of the tableware centralized disinfection units in Wuhan city, in order to provide scientific and standardized reference for improving the quality of tableware disinfection and strengthening the supervision of the regulatory authorities to the tableware centralized disinfection units.MethodAccording to requirements from the health supervision to the tableware centralized disinfection units (Trial) issued by the Ministry of Health, we needed to make basic conditions census of all the tableware centralized sterilization units with the permit (Commerce and Industry business license) in Wuhan City. In reference to the number and scale of these districts tableware centralized sterilization units, we conducted a random sampling and detected six indicators, which were coliform bacteria, pathogenic bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus, Shigella, Salmonella), free residual chlorine, alkyl (phenyl) sulfonate inspection.Result(1)There were41tableware centralized disinfection units with the permit in Wuhan City, which distributed in14districts, including20in seven Center City,19in six urban,2in East Lake High-tech Development Zone. The production of ten companies reached more than million sets. Eight units of production sites (cleaning, disinfection, packaging) with a total area of less than200square meters, eight units had more than ten indexes not up to the standards. All the units had no self-test capability, and only14units had commissioned the inspection.25units had no company name and address on the sterilization packaging labels and there was a phenomenon of missing label or random marked of sterilization date, shelf life. As the result showed, only two units’all investigation items were in full compliance with10respect and24specific content of the questionnaire.(2) The sampling results showed that:five indexes of Staphylococcus aureus, Shigella, Salmonella, free residual chlorine, alkyl (phenyl) sulfonate of all the samples were qualified, only part of the samples coliform detection was not qualified (the following statements failed were meant to coliform index). The average pass rate of tableware centralized disinfection units sampling in Wuhan City was79.56%in2010, and in2011was91.61%.The comparation showed that, the average pass rate of tableware centralized disinfection units in Wuhan City in2011is obviously higher than the rate in2010, which had statistical difference (p<0.01).Conclusion(1) The disinfection capacity of tableware centralized disinfection units in Wuhan City is uneven.some units still exist many problems,for instance, theproduction site area does not up to the conditions, tableware after the factory are lack of inspection or simply untested, labeling is unclear, factory function division is imperfect or missing.(2) After one year remediation and norms, the disinfection capacity and level of tableware centralized disinfection units in Wuhan City has been noticeably improved. |
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