Panorama das agroindústrias de leite e derivados do interior do Estado do Rio de Janeiro frente à implantação dos Programas de Autocontrole

Abstract

The tendency of inspection service of animal products is the total control responsibilities directioning towards the owners’ companies, being up to the fiscalization department the efficiency verification of such controls. For that verification, sanitary standards are published, specifying all the controls that must be used by the companies, from the feedstock obtaining, the production levels, facilities, distribution, to the consumer reaching. When attending to the standards, companies also attend to the fiscalization department, freeing themselves from sanitary infractions, and attend to the consumer, with high quality products. When it comes to dairy factories, controls must be performed from milk obtained in farms, through agricultural good practices, to milk arrival in the agro-industry, as feedstock for dairy products. Following those steps, the production levels are observed, such as good practices applications, operational hygiene standard proceedings, risk analysis and critical points controllment, all those topics fitting to the called Self-control Programs, in order to assure that the company has total control of operations. The execution of Self-control Programs is mandatory to all animal products companies, and, in front of those mandatory terms, the reality of the state countryside of Rio de Janeiro agro-industries was sought. In that goal, 06 (six) milk and dairy industries were selected for the semi-structured survey appliance, which was made via telephone. The questionnaire makes reference to the Self-control Programs administration, getting to know the found difficulties, in addition to the means that guided or made the implementation easier. So, despite the accessibility to information and public institutions support, it is observed that the lack of financial resources becomes a hindrance to those implementation processes, for the industries are small sized. Through the obtained answers from the survey, it is seen that, even though there is an understanding when it comes to the importance of Self-control Programs, the necessary investment requires a solid structuring without extra outlays, beyond the acknowledgement that all those involved, from the employees to the owners, must be engaged in the implementation process.