Características sociais e sanitárias do comércio de comida de rua na perspectiva da segurança dos alimentos

Abstract

The objective of this work was to characterize the social profile and the hygienic and sanitary conditions of the street food trade in the municipalities of Mutuípe and Santo Antonio de Jesus, Bahia, Brazil. This is a cross-sectional study carried out with 126 street food vendors delineated through a non-probabilistic. Data were collected through the application of a list of semi-structured verification (checklist) and based on resolutions RDC nº 275/2002, RDC No. 216/2004 and RDC No. 218/2005 of the National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA). Statistical treatments were used on the collected data and a their hygienic-sanitary diagnosis. The results demonstrated that the Most sellers were female (50.8%), over 50 years old (40.5%), 42.1% had incomplete primary education and less service time than 6 months (46.8%), 48.4% received less than 1 minimum wage from the sale of food and for 74.5% of vendors this activity was the only source of income. income. Inadequacies were found at points of sale in all blocks assessed, namely infrastructure, furniture and fixtures, good hygienic-sanitary practices of handlers and food production. O hygienic-sanitary diagnosis allowed the classification of the highest percentage of points of sale as “bad” (56.3%), as they presented a percentage of adequacy of the checklist items less than 50% according to the classification established in the RDC No. 275/2002. These results confirm the social importance of segment for the municipalities and signals the need for interventions that provide better sanitary quality of products, aiming at the health of consumers.