More than 50% of food handlers may not be sanitation and safety compliant – Cole

Food vendors engaged in a session at Wednesday’s Food Handlers Seminar

More than half of all food vendors in Guyana may well not have the requisite public health credentials to provide service in the sector because of deficiencies in their food-handling standards, Director of the Government Analyst Food and Drugs Department Marlan Cole has told the Stabroek Business.

Speaking with this newspaper shortly after he had delivered the feature address at a seminar for food handlers at the Ocean View International Hotel on Wednesday, Cole said the complete absence of official control over the informal element of the food-handling sector meant that there was “simply no way of monitoring who was