Avaliação higienicossanitária e análise sensorial do pescado comercializado no Porto do Mocajutuba no município de Paço do Lumiar – MA

Abstract

The marketing of fish in Porto do Mocajutuba emerged due to availability of local fishing in the region, initially just like subsistence. To display high offer fished expanded quickly and disorganized. Currently has a structural deficiency that causes problems hygiene on site which can interfere with the quality of fish sold. For this study applied to checklist based on RDC nº 216/2004 of ANVISA, got up 64% of non-compliance, where the query handlers there was almost 100% of non-compliance, by present themselves in place of sale without clothing appropriate, gloves, cap, shoes, aprons. Analyzes sensory 24 samples of Mullet (Mugil spp.) marketed on site divided into two collections, the first in the home sales and the second at the end of the sales, got up average 8 points and 10,5 points, respectively, the largest notes were achieved in attribute gills (smell, color and mucus). It was observed that form of packaging in place of marketing in not being done correctly, which decreases considerably the quality of this fish. The results obtained allow understand that the income of many families depends directly from the sale of caught on site, but there is still a little attention by the power public for improvement on site both in terms of infrastructure as to the direction of handlers what would make the quality of the fish offered increased as well as the income of handlers.