Avaliação das boas práticas em cantinas escolares em São Bento - MA

Abstract

The school lunch represents the meal provided to students within schools, playing a fundamental role in their nutrition, where it often represents the only source of food for students, which is why it must be produced correctly following all standards, as it is not enough just offer school meals, but offer it with quality and hygiene. The main objective of this work was to evaluate school canteens in the municipality of São Bento-Ma, through a checklist divided into six topics, in 11 municipal schools and daycare centers, where good practices were evaluated through this checklist, based on in RDC 216 and RDC 275. The first topic addressed installations, where it was observed that 43% of the locations comply with legislation and 57% are not. The second topic was the hygiene of facilities, equipment, furniture and utensils, of which only 28% of the locations are in compliance with the law, and 72% are outside the required standards. The third topic dealt with the integrated control of vectors and urban pests, with 25% of locations complying with legislation and 75% not complying with legislation. In the fourth topic it was observed that the water supply is 100% non-compliant. In the fifth topic, it was noticed that in the preparation and display of food, only 19% of the schools surveyed complied with what the law requires and 81% did not comply. In the sixth topic, the content is documentation and registration, 100% non-compliant. What was observed in this research is that the majority of canteens in these 11 schools do not follow the standards imposed by legislation, thus making it possible to state that the majority of these schools are not in compliance with the proposed legislation and which is the basis of this research, leaving something to be desired about the quality of the snacks produced