assessing market-sold remedies in lomé (togo) for hygienic quality评估市场销量的补救措施在洛美(多哥)卫生质量.pdfVIP

SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research Biotechnology Research International Volume 2011, Article ID 572521, 5 pages doi:10.4061/2011/572521 Research Article ´ Assessing Market-Sold Remedies in Lome (Togo) for Hygienic Quality Comlan de Souza, Yaovi Ameyapoh, Simplice D. Karou, Kokou T. Anani, Madje L. Kpodar, and Mensavi Gbeassor Centre de Recherche et de Formation sur les Plantes Medicinales (CEFOPLAM), ESTBA, Universite de Lome, Lome BP 1515, Togo ´ ´ ´ ´ Correspondence should be addressed to Simplice D. Karou, simplicekarou@ Received 25 May 2010; Revised 7 July 2010; Accepted 28 July 2010 Academic Editor: Yu Hong Wei Copyright © 2011 Comlan de Souza et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Traditional concoctions sold in marketplaces are always assumed to be safe and efficient; however, they can be potentially toxic because of poor hygienic practices in plant processing or storage. The present study aimed to assess for the microbial quality of ´ market-sold vegetable drugs in Lome. Thus, a total of 209 plant remedies were collected in marketplaces and analysed for the presence of total aerobic bacteria, total coliforms, thermotolerant coliforms, Staphylococcus aureus, sulphite reducing bacteria, and yeast and moulds according to the French Association of Normalisation (AFNOR) guidelines. The results revealed that