Listeria spp. E Listeria monocytogenes NA PRODUÇÃO DE SALSICHAS TIPO HOT DOG E HÁBITOS DE CONSUMO

• Autor(a) principal: CESAR, Alessandra Paro Rodrigues
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/910
• topic: ambiente industrial; contaminação; embutido cozido; listeriose; 1. Alimentos de Origem Animal 2. Listeriose 3. Salsichas Contaminação 4. Embutidos; contamination; cooked stuffed food; industrial plant; listeriosis; CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::CIENCIA E TECNOLOGIA DE ALIMENTOS

Listeria monocytogenes is a gram-positive bacterium, anaerobic facultative, that grows under refrigerator temperature and it can cause listeriosis in human and animals. It is widely distributed in the environment and it has been isolated from food of animal and vegetal origin that was associated to outbreaks of high lethality in many coutries. Thus, this bacterium represents an important pathogen to the public health. Ready-to-eat products, like cooked stuffed food, within them, frankfurters are associated to human listeriosis in many countries. Taking into consideration the importance of the subject and the need of data about it, the occurrence of Listeria spp. and L. monocytogenes in industrial plants, in meat raw materials, in slurry and frankfurters was investigated. Theses samples were harvest in this two production plants with FIS; in one of them GMP, HACCP and SOP were implemented. The results of the microbiological analysis were submitted to the program @Risk to obtain the danger analysis; the mean values results showed that 7 to 9% of the frankfurters in the market may have L. monocytogenes. After serological typification, performed by Oswaldo Cruz Institute, 88 strains of L. monocytogenes were obtained from 106 samples; among them, 76 were harvest in the industrial plants that participate in the experiment, during a day shift production and 30 were harvest in the market. In serological typification, 95% of these strains were classified as serotypes 4b, 1/2a and 1/2b. Impressions about the behavior of the population that consumes frankfurters in the matters of storage proceedings and the pattern of consumption were obtained by the application of 500 questionnaires at random. The results of these questionnaires showed that the presence of the pathogenic serotypes of L. monocytogenes in meat raw materials, as well in frankfurters commercialized by heaps, and purchased like this by about 75% of the consumers interviewed, may represent a danger to the susceptible population, especially when considering the fact of 40% of the consumers said that they eat the frankfurters directly from the package, without cooking them. Besides the consumption practices, as unknown risk factors of the presence of L. monocytogenes found in frankfurters consumed in the country, we also have lack of epidemiological data, absence of patterns as well the deficient information given to the consumer associated to the incipient relation between federal regulatory agencies and the people