Food is a basic human need to continue life. Food needs to be healthy in the sense of having an optimal nutritional value, such as: vitamins, minerals, carbohydrate, fat and more. Food should be pure and intact in the sense not contain contaminants and should be hygiene. If one of these factors affected the resulting food will cause health problems and diseases and even food poisoning. Problems of food sanitation are very important, especially public places are closely related to the service people. The hospital is one of public places that provide public health services with the core medical services. To support medical services for patients who organized the hospital, there is need for both food processing and meet the hygiene requirements of food sanitation.

Food is the only source for humans. Problems arising from food are due to the quality and quantity of food. This is not desired because the eating, actually intend to get the energy to survive, and not to become sick because of it. Thus, food sanitation becomes very important.

Food that is not managed well and correctly can cause negative impacts such as disease and poisoning due to chemicals, microorganisms, plants and animals, and can also cause allergies. The factors that allow the transmission of the disease in the hospital through the food, ie
1. unhygienic behavior
2. a source of infectious diseases
3. the media (food, beverages)
4. resipienal