Elaboração de um guia para construção de procedimentos operacionais padronizados para serviços de alimentação e nutrição.

Abstract

The industrial development occurred in the second half of the twentieth century, led to some changes in consumption habits of society. The woman, now linked to new activities, reduced their time dedicated to homework, increasing the consumption of non-homemade food. This fact also helped to increase the number of commercial food establishments. Trying to improve the health quality, food safety and predictability of procedures in food services, some quality tools have been created and used to provide a safe product. Among the available tools, we can quote the Good Practices (BPs), expressed by the Good Practice Guide (MBP) and Standard Operating Procedures (POPs). Both documents are requested by the National Health Surveillance System (SNVS) to producers and trade food establishments, and should be accessible to employees and available to the sanitary authority when required. Thus, the study objective was to develop a POP´s guide construction for food and nutrition services. The methodology used was a literature sources research, conducted from July 2013 to February 2015. The obtained results were six models for preparing POPs, a standard model one and five specific that make up the "Guide for Development of Operational Standardized Procedures on Food and Nutrition Services ", in addition to a link for publishing E-books created on the library of the Education and Health Center´s internet site, at Federal University of Campina Grande. All topics contained in the models are presented with texts about its purpose and mode of execution, and many still have contextualized examples, all for the model to be self-explaned, in a logical and objective sequence. Thus, it believes that people involved directly or indirectly with the food production process, will have greater easiness in preparation of POPs, being available to the society, in an online format, a guide developed according to legal requirements, that details the structure and basic items that should exist on such documents.