英文摘要 |
To ensure the hygienic safety and quality of school lunches in Taichung City, Office of Food and Drug Safety implemented the school lunch monitoring program every semester. According to the Sanitation Standard for General Foods set by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, coliforms and Escherichia coli were used as indicators of investigation. From 2015 to 2018, a total of 2,494 samples were examined, 191 non-compliant samples (the failure rate was 7.7%) had been forwarded to the authorities for further administrative treatment. The annual failure rate has decreased year by year, showing the hygienic quality of Taichung school lunches has improved. In addition, there were four types of school lunch sources, with failure rates from high to low as follows: 17.3% for supply by external manufacturers, 4.6% for supply by other schools, 3.8% for schools with public-owned and private-run kitchen, and 2.6% for schools with self-run kitchen. Furthermore, when the four sources were divided into two categories: with transportation process (supply by external manufacturers or by other schools) and without transportation process (schools with public-owned and private-run kitchen or with self-run kitchen), the failure rates were 16.4% and 3.0% respectively, suggesting that transportation process led to a higher failure rate. It was recommended to strengthen guidance on the transportation environment and time management of the external manufacturers and other school suppliers, to ensure the hygienic safety and quality of school lunches. |