Instrução normativa nº 32/2010 do Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento - MAPA: análise do texto, forma de interpretação e obtenção dos resultados

Abstract

Brazil remains notable as one of the largest producers of poultry in the world, even taking the lead in the global ranking of exporters of poultry meat, which makes the increasingly competitive segment and increasingly demanding consumers and stringent with regard to quality control and to avoid any kind of fraud. In order to curb the practice of fraud and misappropriation of any kind, the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAPA) through the Department of Inspection of Animal Products (DIPOA) proposed through the implementation of Self-Control Program, the Program Prevention and Control of Water Addition to Products - PPCAAP. This program gave rise to new specific legislation to assess the moisture content in chicken cuts, since previous legislation contemplated only control carcasses through the drip method (Dripping Test). The law is unclear with regard to the official method used to establish the parameters for evaluation of the total water content contained in chicken cuts and there is a great concern that the enterprises can standardize processes in order to prevent process deviations can lead to errors and harm the reliability of the company and its products, it is necessary that these be reviewed and may be the standardization of the test. To this end, this work aims to further study of legislation and the interpretation of data and results. 81 samples of chicken breast, of which 41 were boneless and without skin and 40 with bone and skin samples were used for this experiment. In all samples the moisture and protein, as well as moisture / protein ratio were analyzed. After completion of the experiment and statistical analysis it was observed that the samples of breast boneless and skinless results were satisfactory and remain within the limits established by law, while the samples of breast with bone and skin, although the results obtained are within the limits of the confidence interval for this sampling, the values obtained for normal humidity satisfy the curve, while the values obtained for proteins do not have, a fact which can be related to the bone milling with meat, increasing the protein content in the samples. Thus, it is concluded that a review of Instruction 32/2010 for a description of the methodology for quantification of proteins, and more specifically humidity with respect to the type of material used and the detailed shape of the specimen as it is necessary to be processed for further analysis.