Desenvolvimento regional e agroindústria familiar: qualidade da carne e do pescado da alimentação escolar de Francisco Beltrão – PR

Abstract

The quality of school feeding influences directly the schoolchildren’s quality of life. Some animal origin products provided to the school feeding in the municipal network of Francisco Beltrão – PR come from the family agriculture, this research aimed to evaluate the quality of samples of meat products and of fish supplied, microbiological analyzes of beef (piece and ground), pork, chicken, bovine liver and fillet of tilapia, and the facilities, equipment, utensils and manipulators, with the verification of the items that evaluate the agro-industries hygienic-sanitary conditions of producing these products. The perception of the good manufacturing practices of the agribusiness manipulators was carried out by the application of a questionnaire. The results showed that some samples of pork, bovine meat, bovine liver and fillet of tilapia are not suitable for consumption, because they present Salmonella spp. in 25g. In the pork, bovine and fish agroindustries, facilities, equipments and utensils presented contamination by aerobic mesophiles and enterobacteria, ranging from 4 CFU to> 300 CFU and 9.6x10UFC to> 300 CFU, respectively. Regarding the checklist, the cattle and fish agro-industries accounted for 85% of the items and the pork agroindustry accounted for 50% of the items. However, food handlers are aware of good manufacturing practices, they know how contamination occurs, but they do not seem to take the necessary care, which was verified in the hand swab evaluation whose counts indicated readings of up to> 300 CFU / hand.