The importance fo personal hygiene training for food handlers

Abstract

In Brasil, the vast majority of the restaurants do not have a food technical such as a nutricionist. Thus, food handlers do not have enough information regargind their personal hygiene, contributing to the decline of food quality eventually putting customer´s health at risk. with the objective of implementing personal gygiene rules to the staff of a restaurant, an inspection guideline was followed before and after training, so that the changes after training could be assessed. Among the results, it has been observed an increase in 18% in the itens in conformity to the general asécts of personal hygiene, 70% regarding waship hands, 49% the staff´s behavior during food handling, and 37% in relation to uniform use and care. Therefore, we have conluded that training has produced considerable changes concerning the staff personal hygiene.