Often, the vegetables are not washed before transporting them to market centres or if at all they are washed, the water may not be clean hence the amount of microbes at the time of procurement could be high. Moreover, in most restaurants, vegetables are only minimally processed (e.g. washing, cutting, etc.) without any form of heat treatment to destroy the microbes. This makes vegetable washing and sanitising in restaurants a critical step that needs thorough attention to reduce bacterial load to safe levels. Bird flu and swine flu were mentioned as foodborne illnesses of concern probably due to the worldwide outbreak of these diseases in poultry birds and pigs in 2007 and 2009 respectively, which led to a ban on the importation of live birds and all poultry and pork products from affected countries into Ghana. Although no new outbreaks have been reported in Ghana between then and 2013 when this study was conducted, people are now more cautious and concerned because most of the restaurants depend on imported meat and poultry products