Over the past time, food safety assurance at collective kitchens and school kitchens in Gia Lai province has been strengthened, but the risk of food insecurity is still present, especially in the stages of controlling raw materials, processing and preservation.
Faced with this reality, Gia Lai Provincial People's Committee has directed agencies, units, and localities to strengthen inspection and supervision of food safety at collective kitchens, especially school kitchens, in order to promptly detect and handle violations.
The Provincial Department of Health is assigned to take the lead in implementing food safety measures; develop inspection plans, focusing on high-risk facilities to promptly detect and strictly handle violations.
The Department of Education and Training of the province directs educational institutions with boarding, semi-boarding, canteen kitchens and catering units to strictly implement regulations on food safety and school health; ensure conditions in the entire process from receiving, processing to preserving and using food.
At the same time, it is required to enhance the responsibility of heads in managing and controlling the operation of collective kitchens and ready-to-eat meal providers, and promote the supervisory role of parents and organizations in schools.
Talking to Lao Dong Newspaper, Mr. Pham Van Nam - Director of Gia Lai Department of Education and Training - said that through review, so far no schools' kitchens or ready-to-eat units have been found to violate food safety regulations.
Currently, the whole province has about 350 school kitchens, including semi-boarding, boarding and preschool. Through inspection, the kitchens basically meet the regulations," Mr. Nam said.
According to the Director of Gia Lai Department of Education and Training, recently, some parents have reflected that semi-boarding meals at some schools show signs of being cut short, not commensurate with the contribution level. Through verification, the reason is that the number of students registering for initial meals is lower than the actual number because many parents bring their children late, after the registration time.
To ensure that all students have meals, and no child is short of food, teachers are forced to divide rations equally, leading to reduced rations.
