Schools covered under the mid-day meal scheme will be inspected to ensure that safe food is served to the students
With reports of food poisoning posing a threat to school children’s
health in the mid-day meal scheme coming from several places, the food
safety department in the district has decided to conduct random
inspections of schools that are covered under this.
Speaking to
Express on Sunday Dr R Kathiravan, designated officer of Food Safety and
Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), Coimbatore, said that schools
covered under the scheme in the district would be visited by the FSSAI
team from Monday. He said that random inspections would be done at
government and city Corporation schools that are covered under the
scheme.
“The aim of the inspection is not to scrutinise any
schools or find fault with them, but to make sure that the mid-day meal
in schools is prepared and served in healthy and hygienic conditions,”
Kathiravan said.
The inspection will be conducted by 31 officers
working under the FSSAI in the district. These officials will visit the
meal preparing facility at schools between 11.30 am and 1.30 pm.
If
unhygienic conditions are detected in the meal preparation at any
school a report will be handed over by the inspecting team to the
collector and the director of food safety, Chennai. “We are planning to
go ahead with inspection as a routine activity of food safety officers
to ensure that safe food is served to students,” Kathiravan said.
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