Investigation of microbial pollution of some vegetable samples collected from of Konya city markets in Turkey

Metropolitan city of Konya has the important agricultural activity. For this reason, it has been named "food store of Anatolia" as far as agricultural production is concerned. Many towns around Konya have to draw waters, for irrigation, from lower quality sources including municipal wastewaters. With the application to land of large volumes of minimally pretreated wastewater, it is evident that considerable potential for adverse health effects exists. Microbiological pollution could occur from food crop contamination, pathogen-laden aerosols, ground water pollution or surface water pollution. The study was carried out with the principal objective to investigate bacteria as an indicator of microbiological pollution in vegetables collected from public markets of three central towns in the province of Konya. The work was conducted many specimens representing different varieties of vegetable samples taken from the main public markets city centre.