Resetting to better reflect: an essay on the limitations of the strategies of standardization of hygienic practices in food services for collectivities in Brazil

Abstract

After two decades observing the regular and ineffective repetition of training with the aiming of standardizing hygiene procedures for collectivity food service workers, the authors reflect about this phenomenon in this essay, supported in the social sciences and, more predominantly, in the Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu. They point to the uncritical incorporation of unscientific viewpoints produced within the Brazilian State; the repetition of practices that reproduce the naturalization of Brazil's brutal social inequality that transforms victims into guilty; and they suggest a redefinition in the usually adopted concept for the collective feeding services, in order to incorporate the complexity involved in the meal production process