Profiling of Bacterial Contaminant and Its Susceptibility to Antibiotics in Food Delivery Bag for Food Transportation Around Shah Alam

Abstract

Online food delivery (OFD) services have gained popularity all over the world starting from the early stage of COVID-19 pandemic. Even after the COVID-19 pandemic, people still reliance on OFD services and it became a new norm. The increasing popularity of OFD services corresponds with an increase in the demand for orders for a single rider. On the other hand, food delivery creates food safety challenges. Negligence of proper hygiene management among delivery courier can trigger infectious disease transmission, cross contamination, and foodborne illnesses through fomite transmission. Food spills in delivery bags are one of the possible causes of contaminated food. The purposes of this study were to collect and isolate bacteria from surfaces sampling of food delivery bag.