Poor sanitation practices have serious harm on
the quality and safety of food in food industries. The
problem of insanitary practices on the quality and safety
food in food industries in Calabar is widely known in the
developed countries like United States of American and
Britain. Improper sanitation practices result to lesser
number of prod-borne illness, accounting or only five
thousand deaths per annum, while in the developing
countries of the world, 3.8 million people die annually of
diarrheoa related disease, most of whom are children,
(W.H.O 2011) a research conducted by A.R. Isara et al
(2009). To determine the prevalence of food
contamination of food was 37.5% with salad meat pie and
fried rice serving as the most contaminated food.