Boas práticas de manipulação durante a produção de alimentos na Escola Municipal José Arcanjo de Deus e Silva, na cidade de Zé Doca- MA

Abstract

The present work has been developed in the municipal school José Arcanjo de Deus e Silva, in the city Zé Doca-MA, with the aim of orienting the responsibles for the school nourishment about safe food and good practices of manipulation. Initially, a checklist has been applied to verify the conditions of the physical and operational structure of the canteen, with the objective of characterizing and verifying if the collaborators followed the current legislation. After that, samples of swabs have been collected on the manipulator’s hands and tools, for verifying the presence of microorganisms before and after the training. It’s been applied a half-structured questionnaire to the manipulators for obtaining informations about the scholar environment, and in addition interviews have been made with the directors of the morning and afternoon shifts. After the checklist application, some nonconformities have been identified, for which alterations have been suggested to facilitate the adequation process. It has been observed, however, that the manipulators didn’t have the knowledge about the good practices that must be adopted for obtaining a safe food and with quality, as the importance of using caps and aprons, the periodic development of laboratorial exams and the need of promoting a correct hands and food hygienization. During the activities, significants differences have been verified on the physical and operational structure, specially on the manipulators’ behavior. The results of this work have demonstrated that the hygienic-sanitary school conditions are unsatisfactory, but the mobilization was effective and the hands and tool hygienization process was adequate. As a final result, a Manipulation Good Practices Manual was developed.