Consumo de produtos lácteos informais, um perigo para a saúde pública. Estudo dos fatores relacionados a esse consumo no município de Jacareí - SP / Consumption of informal dairy products, a hazard for public health. Study of factors related to this consumption at the city of Jacareí SP
AUTOR(ES)
Danielle Daher Pereira de Sousa
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2005
RESUMO
Intending to establish associations between dairy product consumers characteristics and the preference for a formal or informal dairy product, the reasons for this preference, the habit of boiling the milk among the informal products consumers, the main consumed dairy products, knowledge about milk and dairy product borne diseases and the meaning of the Inspection Services seal, so they could be a base for future intervention actions to reduce informal product consumption, a survey was carried out using a 29-question semi-structured questionnaire applied to 465 consumers at different points of sale in the city of Jacareí-SP-Brazil from November 2004 to February 2005. The results showed an association between the consumption of the informal product and the following characteristics: male, rural area residence, family income above R$ 1,040.00, more than 4 residents, purchase from street vendors, purchase in the rural area and knowledge that the dairy product can cause diseases. Only the supermarket purchase variable was associated to formal product consumption. The most consumed informal dairy products were: liquid milk, fresh white cheese, butter and yogurt. 7.4% of the liquid milk consumers consume raw milk without boiling it. The main reasons for consuming the informal dairy product were: for being purer, fresher, cheaper, stronger, for trusting who sells the product, for not being different from the industrialized product and for being healthier and tastier. For the formal dairy products, first came practicality, then safety or origin, hygiene, not finding from the producer, being treated or tested, custom, taste and price. About 17% of the consumers said they look for the Inspection seals on the package when they buy milk or dairy products; however no consumer remembered the seal when asked what they observed on the package upon buying industrialized products. The chosen disclosure means, in order of frequency were: TV, radio and through middle schools. The conclusion is that the consumption of informal dairy products does not depend on any of the studied variables, although there is a higher frequency of informal dairy product consumption among men, among those who live in the rural area, families with higher income, higher number of residents per house, when purchased from street vendors and in the rural area and among people who say they know that milk spreads diseases; 7.4% of those interviewed are exposed to the risk of getting some zoonosis or other disease by consuming raw not-boiled milk. The population must be informed about the real differences between industrialized and informal dairy products, as well as about the authorities that certify food quality. Risk reduction will be reached when the government and industry systematically and continuously work to change paradigms and motivate habit changes
ASSUNTO(S)
derivados informais consumidor saúde pública consumer doenças transmitidas por alimentos informal milk public health informal dairy products leite informal food borne diseases
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