Bacterial assessment on vegetables and whim' sold in jell wet market, Kelantan

Jeli wet market is a famous wet market among local where people can find fresh vegetables and poultry for daily consumption. Vegetables and 'Warn' are important to supply high vitamins for human's health. 'Ulam' is Malaysian salad that are eaten raw or slightly processed. However, the consumption of contaminated fresh produce may result to foodbome illness. The impact of this disease associated with foodbome outbreaks that happened with symptoms such as diarrhoea. The common bacteria that able to cause this problem are Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus and Salmonella typhi. All of these bacteria can be found typically in food included in raw vegetables and `ulam' which obtained either from the farm, transport or in the wet market. In this study, the presence of bacteria in vegetables and 'ulam' sold in Jeli wet market were evaluated and identified. Some of the fresh produce are not safe to consume which are cassava, Chinese okra, spucuk ub► kayu' and `pucuk kaduk' while the rest are safe to consume which mean the level of CFU/ml are lower than 106 CFU/ml which as recommended by World Health Organisation (WHO). The presence of all the bacteria in the fresh produce were confirmed after done selective media, gram staining, catalase test and TSI agar test. Keyword: vegetables, bacteria, wet market