Daejeon City Conducts Special Hygiene Inspections for School Meal Suppliers

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] Daejeon City will conduct special inspections targeting school meal supply companies within the city ahead of the new semester.

On the 22nd, the city announced that starting from that day, for three weeks, inspection teams composed of four members including a school meal monitoring group made up of parents will carry out unannounced inspections of the companies.

The inspections will focus on personal hygiene management of operators and workers, storage and use of expired products, and compliance with food preservation and distribution standards.

Minor violations detected during the inspection process will be corrected on-site through guidance, while other non-compliance issues will be reported to the relevant autonomous district and the Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corporation for administrative action.

Previously, the city has been implementing a pilot project for joint grain purchasing since last year. This year, the scope of the joint purchasing project and items have been expanded, with 42 schools participating in joint grain purchasing and 32 schools newly participating in joint livestock product purchasing.

For companies selected as suppliers for the school meal joint purchasing this year, a separate safety inspection of the supplied items will also be conducted by the end of next month.

Nam Si-deok, Director of the Social Economy Division of the city, said, “The unannounced inspections of school meal supply companies are conducted as a mid-term check to ensure that high-quality ingredients are supplied to our children,” and added, “The city plans to continue strengthening hygiene inspections and safety checks targeting school meal supply companies within the city.”

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