Condições higiênicas dos serviços de alimentação em hotéis do município de Uruguaiana-RS

Abstract

The food is one service that hotels can provide. The united of food and nutrition from hotels should meet the sanitary law. The aim of this study was evaluate hygienic conditions of food services in hotels from Uruguaiana city. It was applied a good practice checklist, part of Ordinance nº 817/2013, that consider 51 major impact for health items, and ranges from group 1 – there are not observed critical faults – until 5 – there are observed critical faults. Among the ten hotels observed, two was classified at group 3 and seven at the group 4. One hotel was classified at group 5 because he didn’t attend some obligatory items. The average of irregularities was 672,3 points, and rated at group 4. This results show that food services did not contain good hygienic conditions, and indicated a possible risk of occurrence of foodborne diseases, being necessary interventions to improve the process.