dis cussion
Food safety plays an important role in community health. Despite continuing advances in knowledge and techniques in food safety, consumption of contaminated food is still one of the main causes of many diseases. shrimp meat has excellent nutritional value, being rich in proteins, vitamins, and unsaturated fatty acids(15,16).
It is also extremely perishable and the safe consumption requires adequate sanitary conditions from the moment of catch, through preparation, sale and consumption (7,17,18). In the countries which keep adequate records of diseases transmitted through food, eating contaminated shrimp is responsible for a significant number of disease outbreaks (19,20,21). Presence of pathogens is difficult to detect and therefore good hygiene is very important