Aspectos higiênico-sanitários de unidades de produção de alimentos: estudo de caso de cozinhas das escolas da rede municipal de ensino fundamental de Urandi, Bahia

Abstract

It is given credit that the quality of the service of pertaining to school feeding is a constant concern of Ministry of the Education and Culture MEC, responsible agency for the management of the National Program of School Feeding (PNAE), program that searchs for the improvement and/or maintenance of the nutritional state of the attended pupils. Data of the MEC show that the PNAE makes possible annually, to one better quality of life for 22% of the Brazilian population when developing politics of alimentary and nutritional quality. Besides contributing for a good learning, the program means incentive to the combat to the hunger and improvement in the feeding of the pupils located in the regions most devoid. Searching to understand this scene, in the municipal schools, this research objectified to evaluate the conditions of ambient, operational and personal hygiene in seven units of food production of municipal schools of Urandi, Bahia. The Seven schools in the period of November of 2005 had been evaluated the February of 2006. The methodology was developed in two stages: the first one consisted of a diagnosis by means of survey of the hygienical-sanitary conditions, from a list of Good Practical of Manufacture. Itens evaluated had been marked in accordance with the current law, to know, CVS-6 and Resolutions 275 and 216 of the National Agency of Sanitary Monitoring ANVISA. In the second stage interventions had been made, by means of diagnosis it of the precarious conditions, in the pertaining to school units, aiming at to guarantee the security of the produced pertaining to school feeding in these establishments. The analysis of the data disclosed that all the pertaining to school units of food production had presented unsatisfactory conditions for such activities. The biggest itens that had presented greaters irregularities are referring to the infrastructure conditions (85.27 %). In that it concerns to the conservation of equipment and utensils, one evidenced that 14.28% of the units presented its equipment in good condition of conservation, while that the cleanness of these, in 14.28 % of the schools this operation was only was in accordance with what demands the legislation. In relation to the amount of equipment, this did not correspond with the demand of produced meals, a time that the equipment exerts a great one influences in the final quality of the produced food. How much to the personal hygiene, the manipulators of the related units did not use the standardized uniforms in accordance with the good norms of practical of manufacture. These results indicate that gaps in these units exist, under the optics of the security and the quality, how much to the requirements for food production. On the basis of the gotten results, had been made interventions in the pertaining to school units of food production in the seven municipal schools of Urandi, Bahia, searching of this form, to implement measured of quality control in all stages that involve the processing of the pertaining to school feeding, including in this context the personal qualification, implantation of control of plagues, implantation of uniforms adjusted for the service, the improvement of the menu, among others.