Estrategias de garantia da segurança e o abastecimento de carne bovina para restaurantes comerciais no municipio de Campinas, SP. / Strategies of safety ensurement and beef supply for commercial restaurantes in the city of Campinas, SP.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

Eating away from home has been a frequent habit in the current life style mainly in the great urban centers. The commercial restaurants have represented the most frequent form of attendance of this demand encompassing a sector whose adoption of standards to guarantee the safety of food has meant an emergent public health necessity. The use of great amounts and varieties of foods prepared and distributed directly to the consumer requires the adoption of adequate procedures. And, among these procedures the acquisition of raw material is a key factor to guarantee the safety of the produced meals. Accordingly, the general purpose of the present study was to analyze the supplying strategies of beef in commercial restaurants, and its degree of safety management influence on the production chain agents. Indeed, it is worth to stress the high frequency of beef in the Brazilian menu, and the relation between sanitary risks and their high costs. Furthermore, the study was performed in Campinas, São Paulo state, a city located in a well-known Brazilian region by the largest market, appropriate urban infrastructure and more qualified human resources. This research was one of the descriptive type having three parts. In the first part, a data base was made up with commercial meals production units represented by their lines of attendance: self service, grill and fast food. In the second part 91 restaurants sample from these three segments was studied to obtain the characterization and the dimension of the beef supplying and safety aspects. And finally, these units of beef suppliers were interviewed to identify their beef delivering segments and the food control procedures in this production step. The data analysis allowed to ascertain the quotation of prices as preponderantly relevant to determine the acquisition of beef in commercial restaurants of the self service type and grill restaurant whose supplying was characterized by the use of varied suppliers and partnerships relations without written contract. Besides that, a great diversity of fixed contract was seen in the supplying of the biggest fast food chains which use specific suppliers driven by the necessity of making evident their brand standardization. For this reason, among the five most elected criteria by the suppliers, the origin joined with sanitary inspection was the only attribute related with safety. Additionally, these restaurants attributed a relevant importance to the government role in improvements on beef productive chain sanitary conditions in detriment of their own suppliers monitoring. Thus, situations of risk were evidenced in operational procedures of receiving the products in the restaurants which presented a significantly lack of instruments as thermometers, control questionnaires, qualified technicians in charge, and the participation in restaurants associations was weak, plus an absence of an outspread public and/or private policy visibility in order to stimulate this segment to adopt food safety management systems. With exception of restaurants of fast food type, a great incidence of business management done by the proper owners was remarkable being in the most of the cases responsible for the beef purchase. Regarding the beef delivering market, the study identified the cold-storage companies as the main direct or indirect supplier of all types of investigated commercial restaurants. Despite the size diversity of the cold-storage plants, the observed results indicated that 46.8% of these plants were represented by only three companies that were the greatest ones in a national level for this branch of activity. However, the fragility shown concerning the safety of the food associated with the cold-storage chain was evident in its flowing from suppliers represented by the categories butcher shops and beef and by-products wholesale shops and market to the purchaser/restaurant even though the legislation that came in force has parameters to this case. All things considered, the biggest impacts on the safety of the food improvement in commercial restaurants beef supplying have been verified much more on supplying sector than in the restaurants management whenever it establishes the election criteria for suppliers, purchases and receiving. On the other hand, the commercial restaurants indicated deficiencies of knowledge appropriation and necessary techniques to assure correct procedures in the raw materials acquisition and supply. Apparently, the private and public assistance in the field of the food safety is still insufficient to embrace the restaurant segment in the necessary standards to accomplish adequately its public health role even in a region identified by its privileged situation in the Brazilian realm of goods and services production and consumption.

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serviço de alimentação beef restaurantes abastecimento do alimento restaurants food service carne bovina segurança alimentar food supply food safety

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