Meat products present a composition that facilitates its deterioration. Cares since the production to the consumption guarantee its quality. Was evaluated pH, temperature, calcium, humidity, sulfídrico gas and sulfite of pounded meats and mortadelas, and the knowledge of the consumer in the conservation of these. Respecting to pH, all the samples of pounded meats and 2 of mortadelas were of the established one for LANARA. The temperature of 60% of the samples was superior to the praised one. All the samples were inside of the standards respecting to the composition of calcium and humidity. All pounded meats and 92% of mortadelas had presented sulfídric gas. The sulfite presence was observed in 47% of the pounded meats. Analyzing the label it was observed that 20% of mortadelas did not respecting to the calcium composition and 57% of mortadelas and 40% of the pounded meats did not for humidity. But 60% of the consumers observe the temperature of conservation of the meat products in the ranks of selling ("contact") and the freezing of these in the proper packing is common. One gives credit that the industry and the comercializador establishment must be fiscalized with bigger severity and that educative actions of the consumer must be stimulated aiming at the guarantee of the quality in the food sector.
mortadela; pounded meat; quality physicist-chemistry
