Boas práticas em matadouros: uma revisão.

Abstract

Brazil is one of the largest consumers and exporters of beef in the world, it is estimated that this market turns around U.S. $ 67 billion per year (Brazil, 2013). In order to guarantee a food quality and food safety is necessary to standardize the entire production chain from obtaining raw materials to finished product, with a view to improving choice and the best methods to optimize the process in this way. This work gathers information from aborting Good Manufacturing Practices standards and regulatory guidelines of Brazil, to meet with safety and health of this market constantly expanding and increasingly demanding. A literature review was systematically performed in Medline, Pubmed, Lilacs, SciELO and national and international health committees, the articles published in the last twenty- five years addressing the Practice Abatement in slaughterhouses. The following search terms (keywords and delimiters) were used in various combinations: 1) slaughterhouses; 2) Good Manufacturing Practices. The literature search included original articles, review articles, editorials and guidelines written in English and Portuguese, being selected according to the criteria of the Oxford Centre for Evidence. However the work is concluded that good manufacturing practices are effective and intrinsic to the production of a safe product.