Aspectos do processamento e comércio de pescados em pontos da Região Metropolitana do Recife

Abstract

The fish commercialization has great relevance in the local economic scenario, including in the metropolitan area of Recife, as it is a coastal city surrounded by large rivers and the sea, which makes it possible to obtain \ generation of fish, also having a wide range of breeding and producers of this means of production in the surroundings areas. Such products are usually sold in supermarkets, fairs and public markets and may present different hygienic\sanitary conditions that directly interfere with the health of the consumer. In order to evaluate these conditions in the hygienic and sanitary scope, as well as the quality of the products made available to society as a whole, a bibliographic review was carried out using research and academic publications carried out in recent years as a theoretical basis, as a subsidy and framework for this production. The criteria taken into account were the handling, hygiene care of the product, storage location, treatment and organization of establishments that sell these fish.