Seongbuk-gu Appoints 'Public Meal Safe Ingredient Guardians'

Composed of 20 members including daycare center directors, parents, and nutritionists from the Children's Meal Management Support Center through public recruitment... Direct participation of public meal facility officials and food production and distribution stage monitoring

[Asia Economy Reporter Jongil Park] Seongbuk-gu (Mayor Lee Seung-ro) appointed the '2021 Seongbuk-gu Public Meal Safe Ingredients Guardians' on the 16th at the 6th floor Future Planning Office of the district office, and will begin full-scale safety management and hygiene inspections at the production and distribution stages of public meal ingredients.

The Public Meal Safe Ingredients Guardians (hereinafter referred to as the Guardians) were finalized as a group of 20 members, including daycare center directors, parents, and nutritionists from the Children's Meal Management Support Center, through an open recruitment for meal-related personnel on the Seongbuk-gu Office website from the 19th to the 29th of last month.

The newly appointed Guardians will carry out activities for about two years until March 2023, including ▲proposals for public meal projects ▲monitoring of production and distribution stages of public meal ingredients ▲evaluation of production sites for public meals ▲participation in public meal dietary education programs.

At the appointment ceremony, starting with an encouragement speech by Mayor Lee Seung-ro, the mayor personally presented appointment certificates to the Guardians, and the Public Meal Center director also conducted preliminary education to help the Guardians understand their activities.

The Guardians are scheduled to conduct monitoring of the Public Meal Center and agricultural production sites, as well as production site evaluations from June to September, and will operate flexibly according to COVID-19 quarantine guidelines.

Mayor Lee Seung-ro of Seongbuk-gu said, “Supplying healthy food to children, the future generation leaders, is very important, so I ask for continuous interest to ensure public meals where everyone can eat with peace of mind,” and added, “The district will also thoroughly manage and operate facilities to ensure healthy ingredients are supplied.”

Meanwhile, the Rural-Urban Win-Win Public Meal Support Project is a program where autonomous districts and basic local governments of production sites supply local agricultural products to meal facilities in a 1:1 matching system to provide high-quality ingredients to public meal facilities.

In 2017, Seongbuk-gu selected Damyang-gun as the matched production site and established the Northeast 4 Districts Public Meal Center, supplying eco-friendly ingredients to about 150 public meal facilities to date.

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