Condições higiênico-sanitárias de unidades de alimentação e nutrição de centros municipais de educação infantil de Rio Largo - Alagoas

Abstract

A school feeding aims to partially suppress the nutritional needs of two students during their stay at school. For this, the feed offered must be sensory and nutritionally adequate and safe from a sanitary point of view. Therefore, the School Food and Nutrition Units must maintain adequate practices in all stages of the food production process, attending to what is recommended by the current sanitary legislation. Furthermore, studies that assess the hygienic-sanitary conditions of school feeding demonstrate that a large number of inadequacies have been found. Faced of exposed, this objective research will assess the hygienic-sanitary conditions of the food and nutrition units of two Municipal Centers for Infant Education of Rio Largo - Alagoas. It is an observational study, of cross-sectional design, with a quantitative approach, carried out in 5 units of food and nutrition, data collected in the outubro period to November 2019. It was applied to the Checklist in good Practices for Units of School Food and Nutrition, elaborated by the Collaborating Center for School Food and Nutrition, and generated reports, based on the fora and diagnoses of the hygienic-sanitary conditions of the school food and nutrition units. It was verified that all the approved units were classified as having a regular sanitary risk, varying from 51.72% to 73.69% of found conformities; Being on blocks "Manipulators" and "Buildings and facilities of the preparation area" where you can identify more no conformities. It was concluded that the inadequacies found could compromise the sanitary quality of the school feeding provided to the units, exposing the children benefiting from the risk of food-borne injuries. Therefore, is of fundamental importance to the adoption of adequate measures to guarantee the provide safe food.