Validação do procedimento padrão de higiene operacional em um abatedouro frigorífico de aves, como requisito para atender a norma BRC (British Retail Consortium)

Abstract

The food industry is constantly growing and one of the biggest challenges for the food industry is to produce safe food that does not compromise the health of the consumer. In addition, the consumer market increasingly demands quality products. When talking about quality in the industry, in terms of food safety, it is mandatory to remember the Good Manufacturing Practices (BPF), the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) and the Standard Operating Hygiene Procedure (PPHO), These are indispensable for good quality management. In view of this, the present work aimed to validate the PPHO of a slaughterhouse in the productive sectors, through microbiological data from analyzes of the surfaces of equipment and utensils, carried out over three years, with the purpose of meeting a requirement of the British Retail Consortium standard (BRC). For this, swabs were collected after the cleaning procedure, the enterobacteria and total mesophilic bacteria counts were performed using the AFNOR 01/6-09/97 and AFNOR 01/01-09-98 method, respectively. The standard limits established for counting are values ≤ 1 UFC/cm2 for counting enterobacteria and ≤ 10 UFC/cm2 for counting mesophiles, a standard established by the company that follows the international recommendation for microbiological counting of surfaces. The results obtained in the study show a compliance percentage of 99.42% for enterobacteria counts and 98.57% for mesophiles, over the course of three years of monitoring, and it was verified that the company takes the necessary corrective measures, as well as performs new analysis of the points that did not comply, in order to keep the system safe, in this way it can be considered that the method used by the industry is valid to meet the BRC requirement.