Food handlers are an epidemiologically important group in maintaining and disseminating intestinal parasites towards the community. Children who are infected by enteroparasites become an index case. School children's high prevalence of enteroparasites was the aim of this study. Prevalence of enteroparasites in 89 food handlers was studied at the time they were selling their products in governmental primary schools canteens. Both fecal parasitological examination (Modified Teleman) and Oxiurus search (Graham's Test) was carried out. In 70,8% of them enteroparasites were detected, with the highest prevalence for parasites transmitted by the anus-hand-mounth cycle(Oxiurus 32%), and poor environmental sanitary conditions (Giardia 40%, Ancylostoma 17,4%). Polyparasitism was present in 87,3% of cases, 77,4% of the studied places and 80.8% of food handler's worked without minima hygienic-sanitary conditions. To provide sanitary education is paramount to create the correct habits in this population group and thus contribute to the profilaxis of parasitic intestinal infections.