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another moldy cake, why is campus food safety so often compromised?

2024-09-29

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a few days ago, some netizens posted: "the bread distributed to students in many campuses in kunshan is expired and moldy." after receiving the report from the school, a local investigation team was set up to investigate. after preliminary investigation, it was caused by insufficient cooling time during the processing of the cake.

relevant departments have opened an investigation into distribution and production companies, suspended related services of distribution companies, ordered production companies to stop production, and recycled and sealed the relevant batches of cakes and sent samples for inspection. the local health department has not yet received any reports of cases caused by eating this batch of suspicious food.

judging from the current situation, this "moldy cake incident" has not yet led to serious consequences, but it cannot be taken lightly. some netizens have previously left messages saying that some students have allergies, coughs, etc. and preliminary investigations show that there are a total of 7 schools involved in moldy cakes. this is not a small number and involves many students. it is still necessary to pay attention to the progress of the incident to ensure the safety of students.

the causes and consequences of the incident are still under investigation, but the issues exposed so far are enough to make people suspicious. according to reports, the company involved, lizhong food company, was fined and ordered to make rectifications multiple times in 2022 and 2023, and its operating record is hardly good. in this report, some low-level mistakes such as "failure to meet the cooling process requirements of 3 hours" appeared on some cakes. this can be said to be a repeated offense, which makes people question: has this company fully learned its lessons and strictly standardized production?

objectively speaking, food safety and quality issues related to campus catering have occurred from time to time in recent years. in september 2023, many parents of primary and secondary school students in rongjiang new district, ganzhou, jiangxi province posted videos complaining that lunch delivery was slow and of poor quality, and some children had diarrhea after eating it. the local government announced that it would stop providing central kitchen meals to kindergartens in the district; in 2022 in march, a student catering company in tianjin was found to be dirty and messy. the business license was revoked by the relevant departments and the operator was fined 1 million yuan...

frequent campus food safety incidents are also a reminder: i am afraid that the various problems that occur in campus catering cannot be treated as isolated cases, just as a "production accident". what are the common problems and what mechanisms exist among them? sexual factors should be seriously discussed.

in fact, from the comments of netizens, we can find that many parents and the public have pointed their doubts towards deeper issues, such as whether corporate bidding is open and transparent, whether relevant procedures are standardized, whether corporate qualifications are sound, etc. these voices should be taken seriously.

in reality, some catering companies and schools have indeed formed some kind of interest chain, leading to amplification of campus food safety risks. in july this year, the guangxi commission for discipline inspection and supervision reported a case in which a school canteen supplier paid bribes to monopolize a 12-year contract, resulting in problems such as high meal fees in the student canteen, unstable food quality, and lack of competition in food distribution; in august this year, in dongxing district, neijiang, sichuan, it was also discovered that 33 schools were contracted by the same supplier for nutritional meals, and the supplier had bribed some principals.

of course, this does not mean that there must be a collusion of interests behind every relevant incident, but since this type of phenomenon is not uncommon and is also a public concern, it should become a direction of investigation to dig deeper into whether there are problems and use the truth to clarify doubts. only when the investigation reaches this depth can it have a sufficient deterrent effect.

as early as 2019, the ministry of education and other departments issued the "regulations on school food safety, nutrition and health management", which requires that school meals should adhere to the principle of public welfare and convenience and focus on key issues such as procurement, storage, processing, distribution, and meal provision. in this link, we should improve the school food safety risk prevention and control system to ensure food safety and promote nutrition and health.

this "moldy cake incident" has once again sounded the alarm: campus food safety is related to thousands of young people, and the strictest guarantees should be in place to prevent frequent accidents and repeated failures in the bottom line. in addition to the high level of public attention and the serious handling of individual cases by functional departments, a strict supervision grid must be truly established to ensure that no blind spots are left in supervision.