Rótulos de queijos maturados: avaliação da rotulagem quanto às legislações da Anvisa

Abstract

Labeling is all data present on labels in order to provide information about the product. Food labeling allows the consumer to have access to all relevant information about the product before consuming it, from the ingredients used in the formulation, product name, manufacturer information, warnings, to the expiration date. In Brazil, the Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária (Anvisa) is one of the organizations that establishes the information that a label must contain, aiming to guarantee the quality of the product and the health of the consumer. Over the years, consumers have become more and more demanding with food, which means that labeling is constantly being renewed. The present study aims to assess whether cheese labels are in accordance with Anvisa's current legislation. For this, a survey of Anvisa's legislation was carried out and 22 labels were photographed in the region of the city of São Gonçalo do Sapucaí. The information contained in the labels was compared with is required by Anvisa in order to assess their suitability. As a result, only three non-conformities were found, and an adequacy percentage of 86.4% was obtained.