Safety and quality assessment of street‐vended barbecue chicken samples from Faisalabad, Pakistan. Issue 2 (12th November 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ali, Ayesha; Ahmad, Naveed; Liaqat, Atif; Farooq, Muhammad Adil; Ahsan, Samreen; Chughtai, Muhammad Farhan Jahangir; Rahaman, Abdul; Saeed, Kanza; junaid‐ur‐Rahman, Syed; Siddeeg, Azhari
• Is Part Of: Food science & nutrition. Volume 11:Issue 2(2023)
• Page Start: 930
• Page End: 939
• Publication Date: 2022-11-12
• Subjects: barbecue chicken -- heavy metals -- microbiological safety -- quality -- unhygienic processing; Food industry and trade -- Periodicals; Food -- Periodicals; Nutrition -- Periodicals; 664
• DOI: 10.1002/fsn3.3127
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2048-7177

Abstract

Abstract: The current study was designed to assess the safety and quality status of street‐vended barbecue chicken samples. The samples were collected from four regions of Faisalabad city: Ghulam Mohammad Abad (R1 ), Jhang Road (R2 ), Sargodha Road (R3 ), and Satiana Road (R4 ); and compared with the self‐prepared barbecue chicken sample (R0 ). Purposely, all the collected samples were subjected to assess the quality aspects by physicochemical analyses. The results of the physicochemical analysis showed that moisture content varied from 54% to 60%, crude protein 26.97% to 32.87%, crude fat 7.25% to 9.00%, crude ash 1.61% to 1.72%, pH 5.60 to 6.30, free fatty acid value 1.00% to 1.39%, and peroxide value 0.63 to 0.84 meq/Kg. Results pertaining to the enumeration of total microbial load and total coliform count exhibit 2.39–5.17 and 1.20–3.20 log cfu/g, respectively. The samples were assessed for heavy metals (Pb, Zn, Cd, and Fe) by atomic absorption spectrophotometer (AAS). The concentration of highly toxic metals Pb and Cd was found to be much higher than recommended value as they ranged from 1.90 to 3.70 mg/kg for Pb and 0.10 to 0.90 mg/kg for Cd. However, the level of essential metals (Fe and Zn) in barbecue chicken samples ranged from 67.10 to 180 and 8.30 to 35.80 mg/kg which was much higher than their safe limits for Fe (15 ppm) and Zn (5 ppm), respectively. The study concludes that the consumption of street‐vended barbecue chicken possesses to be a serious public health risk for consumers. Abstract : Control sample exhibited a better nutritional profile, and quality characteristics and also appeared to be microbiologically safe than street‐vended barbecue chicken. Higher concentrations of highly toxic and essential metals found in barbecue chicken than their safe limits. Results suggested the dire need of continual inspection and monitoring of food points by food regulatory authorities to implement hygienic practices from farm to fork.