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The Ministry of Education, the State Administration of Market Supervision, and the National Health Commission issued a notice a few days ago to strengthen the hygiene, safety, and nutrition and health management of school canteens. The notice requires that, in principle, school cafeterias operate independently, and schools that contract out or entrust to operate cafeterias must fully listen to the opinions of the parent committee, student representative assembly, and faculty representative assembly. In addition, primary and secondary schools and kindergartens are not allowed to produce and sell cold meat, raw food, decorated cakes, and high-risk foods such as string beans, fresh day lily, wild mushrooms, and sprouted potatoes.
The notice requires that school food safety is related to the health and life safety of students, family happiness and social stability. It is necessary to standardize the construction of canteens, use the Internet and other means to realize " bright kitchen and bright stove". The school canteen should be kept at a prescribed distance from toxic and harmful places and other sources of pollution. Facilities such as rodent and pest control are intact.
The school canteen is operated independently in principle, and a food business license should be obtained. Schools that contract or entrust the operation of canteens to foreign parties shall, in accordance with the management regulations of relevant local departments, fully listen to the opinions of the parent committee, student representative assembly, and faculty representative assembly, and openly select a reputable catering service unit or catering management company, according to law signing the contract. Schools that choose off-campus catering units should establish and improve the introduction and withdrawal mechanism, and choose the best. For contractors or entrusted operators whose main responsibility for food safety is not in place and food safety accidents have occurred many times, the school shall terminate the contract in a timely manner and notify the territorial education, market supervision and other departments.
At the same time, all localities and schools must strictly control the procurement channels of food, raw materials and tableware, implement a purchase inspection record system, and prohibit the purchase and use of products that are prohibited by the state or that do not meet food safety standards. Primary and secondary schools and kindergartens must not produce and sell cold meat, Raw foods, decorated cakes and high-risk foods such as green beans, fresh day lily, wild mushrooms, and sprouted potatoes. Localities and schools should strengthen cold chain food safety management to ensure food traceability. The food and raw materials in the school cafeteria should be sorted by partitions, and stored away from the wall and the ground.Follow the first in, first out, and first use principle. The containers and tools used for food processing shall be used separately according to the label to ensure that raw and cooked food are separated.
In addition, to ensure nutrition and health, schools should be equipped with qualified full-time or hired food safety and nutrition and health management personnel. Student meals should be diverse and nutritionally balanced, with a variety of fresh vegetables and appropriate amounts of fish, poultry, eggs, and milk. The interval between cooking and consumption of student meals shall not exceed two hours, and the finished food shall be sampled for more than 48 hours in accordance with the prescribed amount. should provide meals on demand, improve the way of serving meals, and encourage measures such as small servings, half servings, and set meals to prevent waste.
The notice also requires all localities to implement sanitation requirements. The school canteen should keep the internal and external environment clean, the ground dry, clean and disinfect regularly, ventilate for more than 30 minutes after each meal, remove kitchen waste in time, and separate garbage for disposal.
Source: Beijing Daily Client
Editor: Du Nina
Review: Jiang Xiaoyuan
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