Avaliação das boas práticas de fabricação em uma empresa de beneficiamento de água mineral em Macapá

Abstract

The use of mineral water for the issue of human survival has been steadily increasing in recent times, due to the economic interest of the mineral water producing companies, to satisfy the population that has no confidence in the quality of the water that is supplied through the water. public supply. And with this, to meet this great demand, the bottled mineral water industries, have been emerging over time new laws related to the product quality in the production of these companies. Given these facts, the regulatory agencies are currently supervising the companies producing mineral water for the quality of water that is being consumed and marketed by the population in order to avoid damage to the health of the population. The objective was to evaluate the Good Practices of bottled and commercialized mineral water manufacturing in the state of Amapá. The research methodology was carried out through a technical visit in a mineral water industry located in the city of Macapá, from November 2019, the study was based on topics and analyzed according to percentage of non-compliance. compliance and non-applied items as recommended by the ANVISA Good Practice Checklist for Industrialization and Commercialization of Natural Mineral Water and Natural Water, in Annex II of RDC no. 173, of September 13, 2006. The results of this research were elaborated through graphs, which, in turn, showed that all items presented met 100% of the conformity with that the company falls in group 1 - low risk establishment. Among the physicochemical parameters, pH, conductivity and turbidity were evaluated. And among the microbiological parameters, total coliforms and thermotolerant coliforms were analyzed. From the obtained data it was concluded that the physical chemical and microbiological vestments are within the standards established by the legislation.