On December 7, the Ho Chi Minh City Food Safety Management Board ended its inspection of food safety law compliance for meals served at communal kitchens, canteens, and food services in more than 2,000 schools.
Food safety inspection team for school meals
Accordingly, the Ho Chi Minh City Food Safety Management Board has inspected the food safety of boarding meals at 2,316 collective kitchens, canteens, catering services, and food businesses in 2,016 educational institutions (1,374 self-organized collective kitchens, 140 contracted collective kitchens, 9 self-organized canteens, 466 contracted canteens, 325 schools receiving ready-made meals...). As a result, regarding the content of legal documents, the food safety inspection team noted that the schools stored quite fully, arranged neatly, and were easy to find. Most schools balanced and used fresh ingredients and food during the day. The source of raw materials and input food all have proven origin through contracts, invoices and the capacity of the supplier (it is noted that 1,220 establishments have been certified with "Safe Food Chain" and 1,411 establishments have been certified with ISO22000, HACCP, VietGap, GlobalGap). Regarding the human resources responsible for ensuring food safety for boarding meals at schools, the inspection team assessed that managers and those directly involved in processing have good awareness of the principles of ensuring food safety in the use, processing and preservation of food. The fact that schools arrange medical staff to regularly inspect the kitchens has also contributed to ensuring food safety for collective kitchens at schools.
Ho Chi Minh City Food Safety Management Board organizes inspection teams to visit more than 2,000educational institutions
According to the representative of the inspection team of the Food Safety Management Board, through the inspection, there are still difficulties and limitations such as: Some units providing meals for schools have processing facilities located in neighboring provinces, outside the city's management scope, leading to many difficulties in inspection and supervision. Some schools have not yet organized canteens, so students still use street vendors in front of the school gate, making it difficult to control food safety; the quality control of input materials of schools faces many difficulties due to the use of many different suppliers... At the end of the inspection, the inspection team of the Ho Chi Minh City Food Safety Management Board proposed and recommended that schools strengthen the work of reviewing, checking and supervising food ingredient suppliers and facilities providing meals for schools. Encourage collective kitchens, canteens, and school catering services to use ingredients and food from suppliers certified to participate in the "Safe Food Chain", ISO22000, HACCP, VietGap or equivalent standards... to ensure that boarding meals are nutritious, high quality, and safe.Thanhnien.vn
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