AVALIAÇÃO DAS CONDIÇÕES HIGIÊNICO-SANITÁRIAS DAS COZINHAS DE INSTITUIÇÕES ESCOLARES PÚBLICAS URBANAS DA CIDADE DE GUAPÉ - MG

Abstract

The kitchens of the teaching units usually resemble more to home kitchens than the industrial ones, because many of them are not in apropriate places for cooking meals, becoming very difficult to apply the hygiene and food control standards established by RDC no. 216. The objective of this research is to carry out an evaluation of hygiene-sanitary conditions of kitchens in public school institutions in the town of Guapé-MG. It was done the evaluation of these conditions in five public school institutions of teaching of municipal and state networks, being a Municipal Center of Child Education (CEMEI), two municipal schools (EM1 and EM2), and two state schools (EE1 and EE2). The data were collected by an application of a List of Good Handling Practices Evaluation (LABPM), based on specific law, that allows the detection of non-conformities in feed units. As a result, it was found that all teaching institutions mostly pointed out common non-conformities in kitchens. Making possible a discussion, where the institution EE1 was the one with the the lowest percentage of adequacy (33%), followed by EE2 with 36%, EM2 with 38%, EM1 with 39%, and CEMEI with 40%. Therefore, it is concluded that all institutions were classified in Group 3 (BAD), attending less than 50% of the items evaluated according to the percentage of general suitability.