Verificação do atendimento às Boas Práticas de Fabricação e controle microbiológico em empresas de saneantes na cidade de João Pessoa e região

Abstract

Good Manufacturing and Control Practices are a set of rules and standards to be applied with the objective of improving the productive processo of some industrial segments such as food, pharmaceutical and more recently cosmetic and sanitizing. Sanitizers are substances or preparations that have the purpose of sanitizing, disinfecting or disinfesting collective and/or public enviroments, in places of common use and in the treatment of water. Although they are products that promote the eliminiation of microorganisms, microbial contaminants are often found in the final product from several sources of contamination. In this way, the objective of this work was to verify the level of good manufacturing practices and control of three companies in the city of João Pessoa and region trough inspection scripts and questionnaires and to analyze several factors concerning production such as air, water, equipment and manipulators through microbiological quality control. According to the inspection route applied, we could see that Company 1 had a total of 21,6% of items not served and Company 2, 61,4%. Of the items that were categorized as “Essential”, 4% were not met, 15% of “Necessary” and 46% of “Reccomended” for Company 1 and 83%, 68% and 34% for Company 2, repectively. It was not possible to perform an inspection for Company 3, only its product was analyzed. The results of microbiological analyzes for detergents were 6,0 x 10³ - 6,3 x 104 CFU/mL for Company 1 and 6,0 x 10³ - 1,2 x 104 CFU/mL for Company 2; for fabric softeners values were 8,1 x 10³ - 1,0 x 104 CFU/mL for Company 1 and 1,5 x 105 – 2,1 x 105 CFU/mL for Company 2; and for the soap the values were <10 CFU/g. Only the Company 1 softener showed total coliforms resulting in a value of 3,6 MPN/100 mL of sample. Regarding the factors concerning production, only water from Company 2 presented coliforms with values of 3,6 MPN/100 mL. For air, equipment and manipulator were found high values of CFU/mL or number of colonies. Suggested improvements include training of employees on Good Manufacturing Practices, more effective and periodic cleaning schedules, and verification of water deposits and the water used in the process improving the final product.