Evaluation of hygienic-sanitary conditions of butcher’s shops in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais

• Autor(a) principal: Aparecida de Oliveira, Katiuce
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Cristina Lombardi, Eliane, Almeida Noronha, Renata
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Vigilância Sanitária em Debate
• Texto Completo: https://visaemdebate.incqs.fiocruz.br/index.php/visaemdebate/article/view/1511
• topic: Hygienic and Sanitary Conditions; Butcher’s Shop; Processed Meats; Condições Higiênico-sanitárias; Açougue; Carnes Transformadas

Introduction: In the city of Uberlândia (MG), meat retailers are classified in categories A, B and C and depending on the classification/activity category they must comply with requirements regarding structure and procedures. Objective: To verify the hygienic-sanitary conditions of these establishments after their regulation in the city of Uberlândia. Method: Inspection documents from the months of December/2015 to January/2016 from 14 butcher’s shops category A that requested health permits. Results: Results were divided in 5 blocks: building situations and conditions; equipment and utensils; production, handling and sales personnel; storage and display of industrialized products; production and exhibition of handmade products The blocks that showed the lowest occurrence of non-conformities were those related to physical structure (22.5%), equipment and utensils (18.3%) and personnel in production, handling and sale (28.6%). Conclusions: It is concluded that the hygienic sanitary conditions of butcher’s shops category A in the city of Uberlândia had few non-conformities regarding structures and great deficiency related to the procedures.