Nandu News Reporter Li Rong Is your child still drinking "milk drink" as pure milk? Whether the nutritious meals of children in the school are really "nutritious", from now on, parents can grasp it by looking at their mobile phones. According to the "Shenzhen Special Economic Zone Health Regulations" implemented this year, "the municipal health department shall work with market supervision, education and other departments to formulate standards for nutritious meals for students, infants and young children". A few days ago, the Shenzhen Municipal Health Commission, the Shenzhen Municipal Education Bureau, and the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Market Supervision issued the "Implementation Plan for The Production and Distribution of Nutritional Meals for Students in Shenzhen" (hereinafter referred to as the "Implementation Plan"), starting this year, Shenzhen will pilot the construction of nutrition and health canteens in various districts, and realize "intelligent monitoring" through the catering information platform for primary and secondary school students to ensure that every student eats nutritious and healthy.
Pilot nutrition and health canteens
Overweight and obese students can eat "customized nutritious meals"
With the rapid development of social economy, the living standards of children and adolescents in Shenzhen have been greatly improved, but nutritional and health problems such as malnutrition, overweight and obesity are also very prominent. The health examination results of nearly 1.4 million primary and secondary school students in Shenzhen in the 2018-2019 school year show that the malnutrition rate is 9.74%, the overweight rate is 12.31%, the obesity rate is 8.42%, and the anemia rate is 3.23%, and the health problems closely related to nutrition have become the main health problems of primary and secondary school students in Shenzhen and need to be improved urgently.
Kindergarten children breakfast, lunch are eaten at school, coupled with more and more primary and secondary school students lunch at school meals, children are in a critical stage of growth and development, parents must be worried, in school to eat nutritious, healthy? In the face of such a situation, the "Implementation Plan" gives a solution, starting this year, Shenzhen will launch a pilot to set up a nutritious and healthy canteen to make students eat healthier.
Nandu reporter learned that according to the requirements of the "Implementation Plan", the food served at each meal in the nutrition and health canteen should include three or more of the four types of foods such as cereals and potatoes, vegetables and fruits, fish, poultry, meat and eggs, milk beans and nuts. Provide pure milk, low-sugar yogurt and other dairy products, and do not use milk drinks. Xiong Jingfan, director of the Obesity and Metabolic Disease Prevention and Control Department of Shenzhen Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Center, introduced that there are many milk drinks like milk on the market, in fact, most of the ingredients are water, because of the good taste, many children like to drink, and this situation will be eliminated in the school's nutritious meals in the future.
In addition, canteens should also implement salt, oil and sugar reduction measures, and regularly publicize the amount of salt, oil and sugar used and the per capita daily or per meal intake. Gradually achieve a daily salt intake of no more than 5 grams per person, edible oil intake of no more than 25-30 grams, and added sugar intake of no more than 25 grams of the limit target. In the canteen, it is also forbidden to sell foods with high oil and high fat and high sugar, such as potato chips, French fries, cakes, spicy strips, sugary drinks (milk tea, juice, carbonated drinks, milk drinks, etc.).
Xiong Jingfan introduced that Shenzhen will use five schools and five catering companies as pilots. Nutrition and health canteens should also cooperate with schools and professional departments to formulate student nutrition improvement plans for nutrition-related diseases such as overweight obesity, malnutrition, and anemia, provide personalized nutritious meals for students with different needs, and set up special recipes to provide overweight and obese students with reasonable nutritious meals, and selectively provide special theme recipes such as promoting growth and development, protecting vision, and improving anemia for students to choose.
Student meals have "smart supervisors"
The food information platform "scores" the recipe
On the one hand, the standardization of nutritious meals, on the other hand, in the face of most catering enterprises and school canteens do not have full-time nutritionists, the level of nutritionists is uneven, the "Implementation Plan" also requires that future practitioners should "hold a certificate".
"We visited and found that even if there are nutritionists in school canteens and catering enterprises, due to the large amount of meals, dietitians are inefficient in calculating the nutritional content of meals, which also leads to nutritional meals becoming a burden. In addition, the nutritional knowledge awareness rate of student meal practitioners is generally low, in addition to the problem of nutritional meals, heavy oil and salt are also prominent problems in student meals. Xiong Jingfan introduced.
In order to better help schools and enterprises ensure that students eat nutritiously and improve the nutritional knowledge awareness rate of practitioners, Shenzhen has also developed a meal information platform for primary and secondary school students. "This platform can realize the functions of supervision, nutritional catering, diet evaluation and guidance training, the system can automatically calculate the nutritional content of each meal, and can also supervise whether the student meal is reduced salt, sugar and oil." In addition, parents can also view the situation of their children's school meal recipes and nutrient analysis through the system, and can also obtain guidance on family balanced meals. Xiong Jingfan said that the system can intelligently score the recipes formulated by various canteens and catering enterprises according to the principle of nutritional balance, and provide modification suggestions according to the scoring results. At the same time, the system will also establish a public recipe library to provide nutritious meal recipe sharing for some small and medium-sized catering enterprises.
In addition to paying attention to children's nutrition, online training for practitioners can also be realized on the platform.
According to the "Shenzhen Special Economic Zone Health Regulations", "student meal delivery enterprises and primary and secondary schools, preschool education institutions, infant and child care service institutions canteens shall be equipped with nutrition staff in accordance with regulations to supply food that meets the standards of nutritious meals for students and infants". To this end, the Municipal Health Commission took the lead in developing the first phase of the nutrition and health training course for practitioners and students, and the newly hired employees of each unit need to complete online training and obtain a certificate of conformity before they can take up their posts, and those who have not obtained a certificate of conformity should re-study the training course until the assessment is qualified.
Parents are involved in supervision
Whether the child eats well or not is regularly announced to the society
In addition to seeing what the child eats, whether the student eats well in the school, the parents also have a say.
According to the Implementation Plan, Shenzhen will also establish a supervision system for the participation of parent committees in the delivery of student meals. The Parents Committee designates health committee members to participate in the training of students' nutrition and food safety knowledge and skills as required, and in accordance with the school's work arrangements, participate in the selection and supervision of school canteens and catering enterprises through open days, meal companion systems and dialogue and exchanges, and assist in completing the task of student meal supervision and monitoring.
In terms of specific implementation, each class of the school elects 1-2 family committees to serve as healthy family committees, and a school-level health committee is formed. Since it is a healthy family committee, you must also understand health, after becoming a healthy family committee, you should learn and master the relevant knowledge of nutrition and health of students, understand the nutritional value of balanced diet and various foods, develop good eating habits, and regularly publicize and educate other parents of students. At the same time, it is also necessary to assist schools to strengthen the monitoring, evaluation and intervention of students' malnutrition, overweight and obesity.
At the same time, the Health Parents Committee shall regularly carry out inspections of the food safety management of school canteens or catering enterprises, including the food safety supervision and inspection of school canteens and the food safety supervision and inspection of student meal delivery enterprises. In the inspection, Shenzhen also combined professionalism and operability, and set up inspection indicators for parents to facilitate parents to score students' meals.
In addition to checking student meals, parents should also pay special attention to "reducing salt, reducing sugar and reducing oil", and strictly limiting high-salt, high-sugar and high-oil dishes and food supply. If there is a commissary in the canteen or school, it is also necessary to check whether alcoholic beverages are sold in violation of the law and whether the signs of carbonated beverage health tips are posted in accordance with the regulations.
Complete the goal in three steps
In 2025, the nutrition knowledge training of employees will be fully covered
In order to achieve good nutrition on the tip of students' tongues, the "Implementation Plan" also clarifies the KPIs and completes the goal in three steps.
First of all, in 2021, promote the use of the Shenzhen primary and secondary school student meal information platform, the proportion of school canteens and student meal delivery enterprises use more than 50%; the nutrition knowledge training coverage rate of school canteens and student meal distribution enterprises will reach 80%, and the nutritional knowledge awareness rate will reach 70%; and at least 1 nutrition and healthy canteen or student meal distribution enterprise nutrition and catering pilot unit will be built in each district.
In 2022, the proportion of school canteens and student meal delivery enterprise platforms used is more than 80%; the nutrition knowledge training coverage rate of employees in school canteens and student meal distribution enterprises will reach 90%, and the nutritional knowledge awareness rate will reach 75%; and at least 5 pilot units of nutrition and healthy canteens or student meal delivery enterprises in various districts will be built.
Finally, by 2025, the proportion of school canteens and student meal distribution enterprise platforms will reach 100%; the nutrition knowledge training coverage rate of employees in school canteens and student meal distribution enterprises will reach 100%, and the nutritional knowledge awareness rate will reach 80%; and at least 10 pilot units for building nutrition and healthy canteens or student meal distribution enterprises in each district will be built.
At the same time, in the future, Shenzhen will also formulate an evaluation plan for the current situation of centralized meals for primary and secondary school students, and the canteens of primary and secondary schools and student meal distribution enterprises will cooperate to complete the evaluation and investigation of the status of centralized meals, including the nutritional status of student meals, the catering process, and the dining environment. In addition, the city's school canteens and catering enterprises should cooperate with the construction of a public recipe library and a public dish library for student meals in Shenzhen according to work requirements, and encourage schools to build a special recipe library and a dish library.