FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES ACQUISITION
FOR BRAZILIAN FOOD SCHOOL
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Camara, Fabiane Mendes; Oliveira, Sabrina Leite ; Spoto,
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Marta Helena Fillet ; Gutierrez, Anita de Souza Dias ; Lima,
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Gisele Souza ; Oliveira, Thiago
¹Companhia de Entrepostos e Armazéns Gerais de São Paulo / CEAGESP.
²ESALQ/USP – Escola Superior de Agricultura “Luiz de Queiroz”/ Universidade de São Paulo.
Introduction: The Brazilian School Food Service
(PNAE) is one of the world’s biggest public food
supplementation effort, providing meals for all the
public school’s 47 million children every school day.
The PNAE rules are strict. The meal planning must use
basic foods, respect the local food habits, nutrient
needs, and give priority to local agricultural production,
especially small growers. The fruits and vegetables are
rich in nutrients, flavors, textures and shapes and are
very important school food components. A public
bidding is required to acquire food for public school
food. The description of the object, its acquisition and
quality control are very complex and difficult tasks.
Objective: Identify and improve the mechanisms for
planning for school meals.
Methodology: The public bidding for the acquisition of
fruits and vegetables of ten different municipalities
were studied and the dynamics of São Paulo Terminal
Market of CEAGESP.
Results: Fruits and vegetables have a very big value
differentiation at the same day for the same product,
variety, given their size and quality. The size and quality
denominations are not clear, and the same occurs for
the price market information. The results have shown
that the description of fruits and vegetables at the
examined public bidding are not clear that don’t use
measurable size characteristics or verifiable quality
standards.
Conclusion: The poor description of the object can
help to explain why the food school systems pay for the
most valued fruits and vegetables and receive the least
valued, half the value.
Technical and financial support:
FAPESP (2010/52337-0), CEAGESP, ESALQ/USP.