Principals eating with kids can improve food safety in schools

THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, the State Administration for Market Regulation and the National Health Commission jointly issued a notice on food safety and nutrition management in schools, requiring the school principals to have meals together with the students. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

The issuance of the provision is timely and also necessary, given that a recent food safety problem in a middle school in Chengdu, Sichuan province, aroused grave public concerns. Considering food safety in schools concerns kids' health and even their lives, many people have suggested that primary and middle schools in China should follow the practice of their counterparts in developed countries, and school principals and students should have their meals together in the same canteens. The document is the authorities' positive response to such a proposal.

That school principals now have to eat meals together with students will put them in the same food safety environment as students. This will encourage them to attach greater importance to food safety and hygiene conditions.