Food Poisoning, Stay Away! Changwon City Inspects Hygiene and Quarantine at 541 Group Catering Facilities

Compliance with Expiration Dates, Ingredient Storage, Cooking, Serving, and Personal Hygiene of Food Service Workers

Changwon City, Gyeongnam Province, is launching a joint inspection to prevent food poisoning in group meal service facilities at schools, kindergartens, and daycare centers.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Seryeong] Changwon City, Gyeongnam Province, will conduct a joint inspection to prevent food poisoning targeting collective catering facilities from April 21 to May 31.

To provide safe and healthy meals to hygiene-vulnerable groups such as students and children, a public-private joint inspection team composed of food safety-related public officials and consumer food hygiene monitors will be operated.

The inspection team will visit a total of 541 collective catering facilities in schools, kindergartens, and daycare centers to conduct a full survey of the facilities.

They will check ▲whether expired products are used or sold ▲hygiene management at each stage such as food and ingredient purchasing, storage, cooking, and serving ▲compliance with hygienic handling standards for food and other items and collective catering facility operators’ compliance ▲personal hygiene management of cooking workers including health checkups.

The city plans to also collect agricultural products from food sales companies supplying agricultural products to collective catering facilities in schools to test for hazardous items such as residual pesticides and heavy metals.

Promotion activities for food poisoning prevention guidelines and guidance on compliance with COVID-19 prevention measures such as hand washing and mask wearing will also be conducted.

Lee Seongrim, Director of the Health and Hygiene Division, said, “With the spread of Omicron and the start of the new school term, parents and students are very concerned. We will do our best to provide hygienic meals through thorough guidance and inspection and check COVID-19 prevention measures so that students and parents can feel at ease.”

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