Avaliação das boas práticas na comercialização dos alimentos de rua em Recife-PE em pandemia do COVID-19

Abstract

Over time, the street food commerce has been consolidated as a survival strategy, to the extent that it minimizes the main structural problems of urban centers, contributing to increase the labor supply, especially for women, ensure the income of socially excluded groups, reduce poverty and improve the quality of life and move the local economy. Thus, the present study aimed to evaluate the good practices in the commercialization of street food in Recife-PE in pandemic of COVID - 19. An observational research was carried out, with a quali-quantitative approach of cross-sectional nature. The study was carried out in Recife - PE, in the neighborhoods of Santo Antônio and São José, which evaluated the good practices in the commercialization of food by street vendors, in a free demand sample. The study was carried out by applying a checklist structured by the RDC 216 of 2004 from ANVISA, and to this was added the orientations for prevention of the new coronavirus according to the World Health Organization (WHO). From the results obtained in this study, it can be observed that the good practices in the commercialization of street food by street vendors have many inadequacies.