TY - JOUR AB - A total of 94 food handlers working at 25 premises in the city of Bradford were examined to determine the prevalence of carriage of Escherichia coli O157:H7 on their hands. A total of 50 clerical workers who did not handle food on a professional basis were recruited as controls. All subjects made palmar impressions on 225mm2 plates containing modified cefixime‐tellurite sorbitol MacConkey agar. In contrast with earlier studies, which examined only abattoir workers, none of the food‐handlers or controls in this investigation carried the bacterium on their hands. VL - 105 IS - 10 SN - 0007-070X DO - 10.1108/00070700310506227 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/00070700310506227 AU - Kerr K.G. AU - Seale K. AU - Walbran S. AU - Rajgopal A. AU - Bentham D. PY - 2003 Y1 - 2003/01/01 TI - Prevalence of Escherichia coli O157 on the hands of food‐workers T2 - British Food Journal PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 678 EP - 681 Y2 - 2024/03/29 ER -