how to control vector-borne diseases in school canteens? chongqing issues four local standards
2024-09-13
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on september 12, the chongqing municipal health commission held a press conference to introduce a series of standards for the integrated control of vectors in school canteens, and interpreted chongqing's four local standards: "technical specifications for integrated rodent control in school canteens", "technical specifications for integrated mosquito control in school canteens", "technical specifications for integrated fly control in school canteens", and "technical specifications for integrated cockroach control in school canteens".
▲the press conference site. photo provided by the interviewee
according to hu bin, the second-level inspector of the municipal health commission, since december 2023, our city has successively organized special actions to investigate and rectify campus food safety and special rectification of outstanding food safety issues in primary and secondary school campuses. in order to effectively solve the infestation of vectors such as rodents, improve the food safety awareness of school canteen management and practitioners, reduce the harm of vectors to the health of teachers and students, and prevent the spread and spread of vector-borne diseases, in the special rectification of campus food safety in our city, the municipal health commission, together with the municipal market supervision bureau and the municipal education commission, organized the municipal center for disease control and prevention and the municipal quality and standardization research institute to jointly formulate the above four local standards.
"the standard applies to places located inside schools of all levels and types, which have relatively independent spaces for raw material storage, food processing and production, and food supply, and directly provide dining services to students and faculty and staff," said hu bin.
wang zheng, an associate researcher at the media protection institute of the municipal center for disease control and prevention, gave an example. for example, the standard puts forward requirements for mosquito and fly prevention facilities in canteens, namely, doors, windows, vents, and ventilation windows that connect school canteens to the outside world can be installed with screen doors and windows with a mesh of no less than 16 or mosquito and fly prevention screens in accordance with mosquito prevention requirements; plastic curtains should be hung at the entrances of restaurants and kitchen areas, or air curtain machines and other fly prevention facilities should be installed; the preparation and packaging of food that is eaten directly should be carried out in separate rooms; food that is eaten directly in the dining area should be stored in fly-proof cabinets in refrigerators, fly-proof covers or sealed containers.
tang ping, secretary of the municipal student science, sports and art development center, said that the municipal education commission will organize schools at all levels and types to carry out training and application of the city’s four local standards for vector control, carry out vector control work in a scientific and standardized manner, and focus on strengthening campus environmental governance, improving “three-prevention” facilities, and evaluating prevention and control effects. it will also strengthen the management of key areas such as various stagnant water in or around school canteens, underground spaces, public green spaces, garbage collection points, and sanitary dead corners.
it is reported that in the future, the municipal market supervision administration will work with the municipal education commission and municipal health commission to increase supervision and inspection efforts, strengthen the main responsibility of schools, and effectively resolve loopholes and shortcomings in vector control.
cheng xuelian, director of the food department of the municipal health commission, said that the release of the standard will be conducive to the comprehensive management of vectors such as rodents, mosquitoes, flies, cockroaches, etc. in school canteens, and comprehensively improve the level of vector control in our city's school canteens.
