Microbiological quality and safe handling of enteral diets in a hospital in Minas Gerais, Brazil

Contamination of enteral diets represents a high risk of compromising the patient's medical condition. To assess the microbiological quality and aseptic conditions in the preparation and administration of handmade and industrialized enteral diets offered in a hospital in the Valley of Jequitinh...

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Main Authors: Raquel Oliveira Medrado Pinto, Eliznara Fernades Correia, Keyla Carvalho Pereira, Paulo de Souza Costa Sobrinho, Daniele Ferreira da Silva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia 2015-06-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
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spelling doaj-76a4b84ca7d0469ea36e904fb135571d2020-11-24T23:38:46ZengSociedade Brasileira de MicrobiologiaBrazilian Journal of Microbiology1678-44052015-06-0146258358910.1590/S1517-838246220131141S1517-83822015000200583Microbiological quality and safe handling of enteral diets in a hospital in Minas Gerais, BrazilRaquel Oliveira Medrado PintoEliznara Fernades CorreiaKeyla Carvalho PereiraPaulo de Souza Costa SobrinhoDaniele Ferreira da SilvaContamination of enteral diets represents a high risk of compromising the patient's medical condition. To assess the microbiological quality and aseptic conditions in the preparation and administration of handmade and industrialized enteral diets offered in a hospital in the Valley of Jequitinhonha, MG, Brazil, we performed a microbiological analysis of 50 samples of diets and 27 samples of surfaces, utensils, and water used in the preparation of the diets. In addition, we assessed the good handling practices of enteral diets according to the requirements specified by the Brazilian legislation. Both kinds of enteral diets showed contamination by coliforms and Pseudomonas spp. No sample was positive for Staphylococcus aureus and Salmonella spp. On the other hand, Listeria spp. was detected in only one sample of handmade diets. Contamination was significantly higher in the handmade preparations (p < 0.05). Nonconformities were detected with respect to good handling practices, which may compromise the diet safety. The results indicate that the sanitary quality of the enteral diets is unsatisfactory, especially handmade diets. Contamination by Pseudomonas spp. is significant because it is often involved in infection episodes. With regard to aseptic practices, it was observed the need of implementing new procedures for handling enteral diets.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822015000200583&lng=en&tlng=enenteral dietaseptic conditionscontamination
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author Raquel Oliveira Medrado Pinto
Eliznara Fernades Correia
Keyla Carvalho Pereira
Paulo de Souza Costa Sobrinho
Daniele Ferreira da Silva
spellingShingle Raquel Oliveira Medrado Pinto
Eliznara Fernades Correia
Keyla Carvalho Pereira
Paulo de Souza Costa Sobrinho
Daniele Ferreira da Silva
Microbiological quality and safe handling of enteral diets in a hospital in Minas Gerais, Brazil
Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
enteral diet
aseptic conditions
contamination
author_facet Raquel Oliveira Medrado Pinto
Eliznara Fernades Correia
Keyla Carvalho Pereira
Paulo de Souza Costa Sobrinho
Daniele Ferreira da Silva
author_sort Raquel Oliveira Medrado Pinto
title Microbiological quality and safe handling of enteral diets in a hospital in Minas Gerais, Brazil
title_short Microbiological quality and safe handling of enteral diets in a hospital in Minas Gerais, Brazil
title_full Microbiological quality and safe handling of enteral diets in a hospital in Minas Gerais, Brazil
title_fullStr Microbiological quality and safe handling of enteral diets in a hospital in Minas Gerais, Brazil
title_full_unstemmed Microbiological quality and safe handling of enteral diets in a hospital in Minas Gerais, Brazil
title_sort microbiological quality and safe handling of enteral diets in a hospital in minas gerais, brazil
publisher Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia
series Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
issn 1678-4405
publishDate 2015-06-01
description Contamination of enteral diets represents a high risk of compromising the patient's medical condition. To assess the microbiological quality and aseptic conditions in the preparation and administration of handmade and industrialized enteral diets offered in a hospital in the Valley of Jequitinhonha, MG, Brazil, we performed a microbiological analysis of 50 samples of diets and 27 samples of surfaces, utensils, and water used in the preparation of the diets. In addition, we assessed the good handling practices of enteral diets according to the requirements specified by the Brazilian legislation. Both kinds of enteral diets showed contamination by coliforms and Pseudomonas spp. No sample was positive for Staphylococcus aureus and Salmonella spp. On the other hand, Listeria spp. was detected in only one sample of handmade diets. Contamination was significantly higher in the handmade preparations (p < 0.05). Nonconformities were detected with respect to good handling practices, which may compromise the diet safety. The results indicate that the sanitary quality of the enteral diets is unsatisfactory, especially handmade diets. Contamination by Pseudomonas spp. is significant because it is often involved in infection episodes. With regard to aseptic practices, it was observed the need of implementing new procedures for handling enteral diets.
topic enteral diet
aseptic conditions
contamination
url http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822015000200583&lng=en&tlng=en
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