Daejeon City, Joint Inspection of School Meals to Prevent Food Poisoning

Daejeon City will conduct a joint inspection of school meals to prevent food poisoning accidents in the fall semester.

On the 28th, Daejeon City announced that from the 28th to the 8th of next month, it will carry out a joint inspection to prevent food poisoning targeting schools and kindergartens in the area.

The joint inspection will be conducted under the supervision of Daejeon City, with participation from the Daejeon Food and Drug Administration, Daejeon Metropolitan Office of Education, hygiene departments of five districts, and consumer food hygiene monitors. A public-private joint inspection team will be formed to inspect the hygiene status of a total of 285 facilities related to meal service facilities and suppliers at local schools and kindergartens.

Daejeon City plans to focus on hygiene management at each stage such as supply, storage, cooking, and serving of food ingredients, as well as food handling standards and compliance requirements for operators of collective meal service facilities, while simultaneously conducting promotional activities including guidance on food poisoning prevention rules.

In addition, safety will be confirmed through sample testing of companies delivering lunchboxes to modernized school cafeterias and after-school care classrooms, as well as foods with a high risk of food poisoning and non-heated foods.

Nam Si-deok, Director of the Citizen Sports and Health Bureau of Daejeon City, said, “To prevent food poisoning accidents, we ask everyone to strictly follow the six major food poisoning prevention rules, such as washing hands and eating cooked food.” He added, “Daejeon City will continue to make efforts to prevent food poisoning through the continuous operation of an emergency response team and ongoing inspections of multi-use facilities.”

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