Good Hygiene Practice Interventions for Safer Pork at Traditional Markets in Cambodia

NCT04594122 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: SFFF-RCT2020
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 360
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Safe Food Fair Food for Cambodia (SFFF) is a Feed the Future Innovation Lab project funded by USAID. This 3-year project aims to improve food safety of animal source food (ASF) in Cambodia. SFFF was awarded to the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), National Animal Health and Production Research Institute (NAHPRI) and Livestock Development for Community Livelihood Organization (LDC) and in collaboration with Cambodian Ministry of Health CDC and NIPH. Based on the findings and consultations with food safety stakeholders in Cambodia, we have developed a set of interventions to improve hygienic practice and pork safety at the traditional markets in Cambodia. Those interventions will be introduced and tested at retail in six selected provinces using Randomized Controlled Trials (RCT). To ensure compliance of targeted actors (e.g. retailers), participatory methods (e.g. FGD) were used to validate intervention packages. There are two steps of intervention which contain of part 1) Retailer formative research for SFFF Cambodia and 2) Interventions for Good Hygiene Practices for Safer Pork at Traditional Markets. Part 1. Retailer formative research for SFFF Cambodia: We will implement an intervention package to this trial group and collect biological sampling to determine the hygienic status before and after the intervention. The intervention packages will be developed for SFFF Cambodia in consultation with partners and based on findings of SFFF Cambodia project. Part 2. Intervention for Good Hygiene Practices for Safer Pork at Traditional Markets: A randomized controlled trial (RCT) intervention will be conducted in 12 markets in 6 provinces. Those provinces were selected based on the prevalence of Salmonella in a market survey study, namely Kampot, Kampong Cham, Kampong Speu, Takeo, Siem Reap, and Phnom Penh. Another 12 markets, in the same provinces, will be used as a control group. In total 24 traditional wet markets will be included in the sampling, by selecting the 4 largest traditional markets in the six provinces with at least 15 pork shops. At each market, 15 pork shops were selected for sampling. The intervention package includes 5 keys actions (Handbook) and provision of equipment incentive (e.g. inox tray, easy-clean surface material), and training on good hygiene practices.

Conditions

Food Borne Diseases; Food Safety

Keywords

Hygiene Practice; Bacterial Contamination; Traditional Market; Pork Shop; Cambodia

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Proportion of samples fulfill Cambodian microbiological standards for pork

  Total bacterial count in pork samples will be measured from both trial and control groups to assess level of compliance with national standards

  16 weeks

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Change in knowledge of pork retailers

  16 weeks

• Change in practice of pork retailers

  16 weeks

Study Arms (2)

Control

NO INTERVENTION

No intervention in this group

Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

Hygiene package, training, branding, and certification

Behavioral: Improve hygiene practice of pork sellers

Interventions

Improve hygiene practice of pork sellers BEHAVIORAL

includes 5 keys actions (Handbook) and provision of equipment incentive and training on good hygiene practices, branding, and certification

Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 65 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Under selected markets
• Selling pork only
• Daily selling
• Voluntary

You may not qualify if:

• Out of the age range 18-65

Sponsors & Collaborators

• The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI): lead
• National Animal Health and Production Research Institute, Cambodia: collaborator
• Livestock Development for Community Livelihood Organization, Cambodia: collaborator
• Emory University: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

National Animal Health and Production Research Institute

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Location

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Related Links

• Lindahl J, Kakkar M, Mehta P, Deka R and Grace D. 2014." Risks with Urban and Peri-urban Milk Production in India." Presentation at the EcoHealth 2014 conference, Montreal, Canada, August 11-15.
• Lapar, M., L, R. Deka, J. Lindahl, and D. Grace. 2014b. "Quality and Safety Improvements in Informal Milk Markets and Implications for Food Safety Policy."

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Foodborne Diseases

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Poisoning; Chemically-Induced Disorders

Study Officials

• Delia Randolph, PhD

  The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Model Details: Two groups of pork retailers will be recruited: control group and intervention group

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 4, 2020
• First Posted: October 20, 2020
• Study Start: June 30, 2020
• Primary Completion: February 28, 2021
• Study Completion: March 15, 2021
• Last Updated: September 2, 2021

Record last verified: 2020-10

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

CA (1)