IDENTIFICATION OF BORAX IN SIOMAY STREET FOOD

AT BALAI KOTA STREET, VATULEMO FIELD OF PALU CITY

YEAR 2017

Wahyuni Taslim*, Elly Yane Bangkele**, Gabriella Lintin***

*Student of Medical Education, Faculty of Medical and Health Science, TadulakoUniversity.

**Department of Public Health Science, Faculty of Medical and Health Science,
Tadulako University.
***Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medical and Health Science, TadulakoUniversity.

ABSTRACT

Background :
Food is something which comes from biological and water sources, either
processed or unprocessed, which is applied as foods or beverages for human
consumption. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) defines that street food
as foods and beverages is served in container or vehicle sales. Borax indeed
useful if used based on its function, but it becomes very dangerous when used for
food processing. Data was collected by BPOM in 2010 that food which is top rank
contain formaldehyde and borax are sea fishes, wet noodles, tofu, meatballs and
siomay. This is why author conduct a research to identify borax ingredient on
siomay street food around Balai kota street, Field of Vatulemo Palu.

Objective :To identify borax ingredient on siomay street food at balai kota street,
vatulemo field of palu city, year 2017.

Method : Type of researches which was used in this research is descriptive

observational studies, sample was taken by using total sampling, the total number
of sample was 13 siomay peddlers based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. Data
obtained from observations and laboratory checks would be processed and
analyzed by using descriptive observation.

Result:
In 13 samples of siomay street food were done testing and showed that all samples
are negative. it means no borax on siomay street food.

Conclusion: There is no borax ingredient on all samples (13 samples) that were
tested.

Keywords: Food, Street food, Borax