Condições higiênicas de cozinhas de escolas de educação infantil na cidade de Itaqui-RS

Abstract

The school plays an important role to develop the eating habits, is in this environment that children and adolescents remain a significant period of time every day. The National School Feeding Programme aims to atempt the nutritional needs of students during their stay in the classroom. The objective of this study was to evaluate the health conditions of early childhood education schools in the city of Itaqui. Four schools were included. It was applied a list of verification included in the Ordinance № 78/2009, the rating was made in terms of frequency of compliance and classified according to RDC № 275/2002. The frequency found of conformities was 38.90%. In individual assessment, all schools (n=4) groups ranked in Group 3, with 37.17%, 43.70%, 32.90% and 41.83%, respectively. The best category evaluated was waste management, with an average of 66.66% adequacy. The lowest percentage was found in documentation and registration item, with 0 % adequacy. It is concluded that there is a high frequency of noncompliance between schools, a situation that makes them outside the quality standards imposed by law.