Ensuring food safety and hygiene in schools

Identifying student health care as the foundation for quality education, recently, schools in the province have implemented many solutions to ensure food safety and hygiene.

Yen Lap commune leaders inspected the kitchen of Yen Lap Commune Ethnic Boarding Secondary School.

At Nguyen Van Huyen High School, the school has equipped a water filtration system to serve more than 1,700 students, teachers, and staff, and arranged a clean water dispenser in the school yard to serve physical education and collective activities.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Ha, the school's health officer, said: We regularly strengthen medical work and school environmental sanitation to prevent and control infectious diseases caused by unsafe water sources; mobilize teachers, administrators, and students to participate in cleaning the campus, clearing sewers, collecting waste around the schoolyard, disinfecting classrooms, maintaining clean water systems, and ensuring the health of students.

For Tien Nguyen Primary Boarding School, food safety and hygiene work is implemented seriously and strictly. The school has 387 students, of which 322 are boarding students. The school organizes cooking 3 meals/day with 7 catering staff, all food has clear origin, is delivered and stored according to regulations. The kitchen is fully equipped with drying cabinets, dish drying cabinets with closed doors, processing tools and dividing meals into stainless steel trays with lids. Catering staff are given regular health check-ups, trained in food safety knowledge and provided with protective equipment during processing.
Comrade Mai Thi Luyet, Vice Principal of the school said: “From the beginning of the school year, the school signed a contract to supply clean food with qualified units; absolutely do not use food with industrial colors or unknown origin.

Along with investing in facilities, schools in the province regularly coordinate with local authorities to organize propaganda and training on food safety and food poisoning prevention; at the same time, promote education on food safety and hygiene for teachers, students, catering staff and parents.

Along with the efforts of the Education sector, the provincial Health sector has increased coordination in organizing inspections, monitoring, training, and rehearsing response plans in case of mass food poisoning incidents. The synchronous and inter-sectoral implementation helps promptly detect and handle unsafe risks, minimizing risks in collective kitchens.

Article and photos: Nhu Quynh

Source: https://baotuyenquang.com.vn/xa-hoi/202511/dam-bao-an-toan-ve-sinh-thuc-pham-tai-cac-truong-hoc-34c016c/