Opinion Of The Food Processors, Wholesale And Retail Companies Towards The Program For Product Quality Analysis In São Paulo, Brazil

This research seeks to identify the opinion of food manufacturing, wholesale and retail companies towards the Program for Product Quality Analysis in Brazil. Managers from 11 food manufacturing companies and six wholesalers and retailers from the State of São Paulo were interviewed. The results showed that there is a lack of knowledge of the official methodology adopted by the program. The food processors were concerned about the impact the divulging of the results of these analyses would have on the wholesalers and retailers. In addition, they contested the way in which the results were divulged. However the majority of the interviewees believed that the general effect of the program on the society was positive. © 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.148545551Técnico- O que é (2000), http://abia.org.br, Associação Brasileira das Indústrias da Alimentação Available: Access on: 18 May 2000Cohen, E., Franco, R., Evaluación de projetos sociales (1988), Buenos Aires, Instituto Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Planification Economica y Social (ILPES). Centro Interamericano de Desarollo Social CIDES/OEAGuilford, C.T., Involving consumers in food control in the United States (1993) Food Nutrition and Agriculture, 8 (9), pp. 32-37Educaçào do consumidor (2001), http://www.uol.com.br/idec/news, Instituto Brasileiro de Defesa do Consumidor - IDEC Available: Access on: 12 December 2001Programa de educação para o consumo (1998), http://www.inmetro.gov.br, Instituto Nacional de Metrologia, Normalização e Qualidade Industrial INMETRO Available: Access on: 19 February 1998Programa de análise da qualidade de produtos (1998), http://www.inmetro.gov.br, Instituto Nacional de Metrologia, Normalização e Qualidade Industrial INMETRO Available: Access on: 10 June 1998Procedimento do programa de análise de produtos (1999), http://www.inmetro.gov.br, INMETRO (1999). Available: Access on: 21 October 1999Liporace, T.D., Ação dos consumidores na qualidade de bens e serviços (1996), Rio de Janeiro, 125p. Master Thesis, Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroElevating the importance of safe food handling among consumers (1998), http://fightbac.org/about/elevate, Partnership for food safety education Available: Acess on: 25 June 1998Salay, E., Caswell, J., Developments in Brazilian Food Safety Policy (1998) The International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, Greenwich, 1 (2), pp. 167-177Salay, E., Pereira, J.L., Mercadante, A.M., Netto, F.M., Cavalli, S.B., Food safety issues in developing nations: A case study of Brazil (2001) Interdisciplinary Food Safety Research, pp. 87-120. , N. H. Hooker, & E. A. Murano (Eds.), New York: CRC PressTabai, K.C., Avaliação dos resultados do Programa de Análise da Qualidade de Produtos do Instituto Nacional de Metrologia e Qualidade Industrial INMETRO. Campinas (2001), p. 139. , PhD Thesis, Faculdade de Engenharia de Alimentos, Universidade Estadual de CampinasTabai, K.C., Salay, E., O Programa de Análise da Qualidade de Produtos do INMETRO: Os resultados nas ações de órgãos governamentais fiscalizadores de alimentos (2002) Revista Higiene Alimentar, 16 (99), pp. 16-28The role of food safety in health and development (1984), World Health Organization - WHO Technical Report Series no. 705, Genev