The objective of this study was to evaluate the hygienic conditions of food service in accordance to the Brazilian Normative NBR 15635:2008. We evaluated 23 food services in the city of Santa Maria (RS) during the months of July and August in the year of 2011. As an inclusion criteria of the research, the food service business from the district of Santa Maria (RS) registered in the Surveillance of health that have the license in 2009 and updated in 2010 were used. The data collection instrument was a checklist in the good practices drawn from the Brazilian Normative for foodservices. The results showed that only 4% (n = 1) from the food services were evaluated in group I (good), 70% (n = 16) were classified in Group II (Regular) and 26% (n = 6) were classified in Group III (Bad). It can be concluded that the majority of the evaluated establishments according to used the rules are classified in the group regularly and bad, thus not attending to the requirements of the Normative.
Food services; Checklist; Food quality; Food hygiene; Good manipulation practices
