Knowledge of elderly fishermen of Medano Blanco on fish hygienic and anisakiasis

Abstract

Guarantee safe food to the population, is a concern of those who work in public health; In order to evaluate the level of knowledge of elderly fishermen, of Medano Blanco, on parasites of the Anisakidae family and the gastric or respiratory symptoms that they trigger, a participatory diagnosis was applied, using direct observation, visits to the fishing area, to the community of Pantano Abajo, to the urban outpatient clinic and unstructured interviews to five family members, linked to the fishing activity. It was found that they have never received courses on hygienic handling of fish, nobody has inspected the work, they sell without sanitary permission, they eviscerate and discard the remains to the environment, they do not refrigerate the fish, they have seen the parasite but, they do not know details of it, being very common suffer gastric and respiratory symptoms. It is a risk for people to ignore the parasite and the parasitic disease it causes, known as anisakiasis.