Quality control in school kitchens

In recent times, localities in Hanoi have stepped up inspection and supervision to ensure food safety in school kitchens.

In recent times, localities in Hanoi have stepped up inspection and supervision to ensure food safety in school kitchens.

In the 2024-2025 school year, the Hanoi Education sector will have more than 2,900 schools with 2.3 million preschool and primary school students - the locality with the largest educational scale in the country. In addition, the capital city has more than 4,000 school kitchens.

Recently, localities in Hanoi have stepped up inspection and supervision to ensure food safety in school kitchens.

Currently, the biggest difficulty in connecting safe agricultural products to collective kitchens is due to the low price of each meal; many schools and parents have not agreed to increase the price to match the input product.

Business owners with collective kitchens have not yet boldly invested in clean food sources to ensure the health of workers.

Therefore, authorities need to step up propaganda to raise awareness and sense of social responsibility among organizations, individuals and consumers, change their habits of choosing and consuming food with clear origin, thereby creating strong changes in production and consumption...

Head of the Hanoi Food Safety and Hygiene Department Dang Thanh Phong said that from August 2024 to the end of August 2025, the whole city will focus on ensuring food safety inside and outside schools.

Accordingly, school kitchens are strictly controlled in terms of origin and food processing to ensure safety and prevent poisoning for students and teachers.

Along with that, food services around schools also need to be strengthened by local authorities to inspect and supervise.

The city pays special attention to spontaneous stalls and street vendors around school gates. Because the food sold at these stalls is of unknown origin, it will pose a risk to the health of students...

In particular, the work of checking, monitoring and tracing the origin of food in and around the school gate will be carried out seriously and regularly; organizations and individuals who violate the regulations will be strictly handled.

To ensure food safety, the Hanoi Food Safety and Hygiene Department recommends that inspection teams from districts, towns and cities focus on surprise inspections and post-inspections to see how far establishments have corrected violations and shortcomings.

From there, it is possible to promptly detect unsafe food, establishments with violations, and those that have not fully complied with processing procedures... In addition, localities need to continue to strengthen propaganda and guidance for schools, reminding students not to use food of unknown origin provided by strangers.

Director of the Hanoi Department of Education and Training Tran The Cuong affirmed that in order to successfully complete the tasks of the 2024-2025 school year and ensure that students study well, the care and protection of their health is identified by the entire sector as a top priority task and must not be neglected at any time.

All schools have medical rooms fully equipped with equipment, a list of medicines and well-qualified medical staff on duty, ready to respond to incidents.

To prevent the risk of food safety and hygiene inside and outside the school gate, in addition to continuing to coordinate with authorities, proactively promoting a sense of responsibility for caring for and protecting students' health is being given special attention by schools in the city.

Source: https://baodautu.vn/kiem-soat-chat-luong-tai-bep-an-truong-hoc-d228466.html