Proposal to mobilize parent representatives to monitor food safety

The Ministry of Health recommends that localities and the education sector mobilize parent representatives to participate in monitoring health care and ensuring food safety in schools.

Faced with the reality of mass food poisoning cases, unsanitary meals for students at educational institutions and shift meals for workers, Deputy Minister of Health Do Xuan Tuyen, Standing Member of the Central Interdisciplinary Steering Committee on Food Safety, has just sent an official dispatch to the Ministry of Education and Training, and the interdisciplinary steering committees on food safety in provinces and cities, requesting to strengthen the direction of ensuring food safety in schools and collective kitchens.

The Ministry of Health recommends that localities mobilize parent representatives to participate in monitoring health care and ensuring food safety in schools.

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Accordingly, the Ministry of Health requested strict implementation of current regulations on food safety; Directive No. 38/CT-TTg of 2024 of the Prime Minister on strengthening food poisoning prevention, which emphasizes that heads of food production and service establishments and collective kitchen organizers must be responsible for food safety.

At the same time, it is recommended that localities and the education sector mobilize the participation and promote the role of mass organizations, trade unions in industrial parks, export processing zones, medical facilities, parent-teacher representative boards, youth unions at schools, and relevant social organizations in supervising health care, ensuring food safety and environmental sanitation in industrial parks, export processing zones, hospitals, and schools.

The Ministry of Health also requires raising awareness and responsibility of heads of establishments, units organizing collective kitchens, establishments providing ready-to-eat meals, owners of food service and street food establishments, especially management boards of industrial parks and export processing zones; school principals, and leaders of medical facilities to ensure responsible food production and business for public health.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/de-nghi-huy-dong-ban-dai-dien-cha-me-hoc-sinh-giam-sat-an-toan-thuc-pham-185251104171949562.htm