Transgênicos: opinião de professores e alunos de nível médio da área de nutrição / Transgenic foods: the opinion of secondary school teacher’s and student’s of the nutrition area

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

RESUMO

The employment of transgenics organisms divides opinions and, therefore, it is cause of great controversy. In spite of the existence of vast list of publications that register the current benefits of the development of the transgenia, inquietude signs are verified on the part of the consumers with relationship to your employment in the food’s production. Such behavior frequently elapses of the lack of clear information and emitted by agencies that enjoy the consumers trust. This present study searched to know the level of information of teachers and students of technical courses in nutrition, maintained by public and located schools in different areas and municipal districts of São Paulo’s State. It was elaborated and adopted a questionnaire for the teachers, containing 33 descriptive and objective subjects, and one for the students, with 26 subjects, also with the involvement of subjects of the referred modalities. Both instruments referred to the interviewees opinion in relation to the use of the transgenia. He/she/you fits to point out that, in these questionnaires, referring subjects were also included to the situation socioeconômica and these teachers alimentary habits. For the analysis of the data the softwares were used Excel and the SAS ones. Of the teachers total and chosen students that integrate the sample, 38% and 69,3%, respectively, agreed in participating in the research, being totaled 42 teachers and 277 interviewed students, originating from of 9 schools. Most of the teachers registered answers, considered pertinent, to the subjects related to the theme " transgenics ", although it was hoped the citations involved the use of more necessary terms, once the members of the sample were graduate, and, largely, postgraduates, in several kindred areas of the biological sciences. Most of the students also answered to referred them subjects, although, also, in a superficial way. The teachers substantial portion (62%) didn t know how to affirm transgenics food/product s are beneficial or malicious to the man, situation this already expected, by virtue of the shortage of information on the consequences that the consumption of these victuals can bring the man. Most of the interviewees supports researches that involve the analysis of related themes the transgenia, besides recognizing the need of the labelling of victuals transgenics. It can be affirmed that the largest volume of investments in education, among other initiatives, could contribute to the teachers and students’ formation aiding them to evaluate, critically, subjects relatively new, as the transgenics.

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nutrition value food safety consumidor alimentos transgênicos valor nutritivo transgenic foods segurança alimentar custumer

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