ASSESSMENT OF AIRBORNE BACTR 'tle RIA Titl PAMPANGA = STATE. == AGRICULTUn," UNIVERSITY FOOD CENTER: ITs IMPLICATION or FOOD SAFETY PRACTICES Researcher : HADRIAN Q.SIMBULAN Schoool : Pampanga State Agricultural University Degree : Bachelor of Science in Biology Date Completed : April 2019 Adviser : MA. Socorro C.Tuazon, MPS. Airborne pathogens have increased rapidly which is why studying bioaerosol broadens the knowledge on their identification, quantification, distribution, and health impact of these microorganisms in air. The focus of this study are the airborne bacteria present in food canteen that aimed to assess the following objectives such as: the airborne bacteria in Pampanga State Agricultural University Food Center, the Significant differences on its bacterial colonies (mean CFU) between two main areas (Stalls and dining areas), at what time has the most bacterial colonies (mean CFU) present, and the Significant relationship of the number of bacterial colonies {CFU) to the number of occupants. Passive sedimentation was used by the researcher to collect the bacterial colonies (CFU) in Air and Manual Counting to assess the quantity of bacterial colonies {CFU). A total of 463 CFU for 10 minutes were collected in four samplings. The results shows that the two main areas have no Significant differences in bacterial count. In terms on the sampling time, 12:00 sampling gained the highest bacterial count which has 28 CFU because most of the customers ate lunch on this time and has significant differences on 5:00 sampling with 7.83 CFU because in this time were gained the lowest mean CFU. The amcreasing of the number of occupants the higher the bacterial colony count, however the result shows that there is no significant differences between the number of bacterial colonies (mean CFU) in each sampling times to the number of occupants.