The problem of schoolchildren's health remains relevant today. Doctors still note a high percentage of chronic diseases acquired at school age. And among them the leading place is occupied by diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Experts see the main reason for this not only in the lack of knowledge among children and adults about healthy nutrition, but also in the low level of qualification of school catering staff, poor provision of canteens with technological and refrigeration equipment.Continuing the theme of school meals and school meals, I propose another article about the poisoning of schoolchildren in May and how school meals are organized in Moscow schools.



Author Svetlana Mikhailova
May 11, 2012

May holidays for some were not festive at all. For example, for schoolchildren from Tula who ended up in the hospital with a diagnosis of acute intestinal infection. As shown by the inspection conducted by the prosecutor's office, the cause of the disease was the flagrant unsanitary conditions in the school cafeteria. And this situation is typical - in most cases, mass poisoning of students occurs due to the neglect of sanitary and technological standards by employees of catering departments. True, Moscow schoolchildren are still “holding on” - but it is not known how long the health of children will last, given what is happening with food in many schools in the capital.

Two districts can be called the most problematic - ZAO and SZAO. It is from here that complaints about disgusting food in school canteens are most often received. For example, school number 64. Parents of students speak of the children's menu like this: “It's really disgusting! Slimy pasta with a stone cutlet, in which breading is 2 times more than meat. And the meat, apparently, was taken away by that homeless-looking aunt, who is called an employee of the catering department. At school No. 811, the situation is no better: “Even my unspoiled children refuse to eat what is proudly called curd pudding on the school's 811 menu! And cauliflower soup is like veggie dog chowder! Maybe this is useful, but in the performance of our chefs it is inedible!

Such comments can be quoted endlessly - parents have been expressing their dissatisfaction for a long time and, unfortunately, to no avail. They address their claims to KSHP "Koniks-Shkolnik", State Unitary Enterprise Food Plant "Shkolnik" and KSHP "Logarithm" - companies that "occupied" the educational institutions of these two districts very densely. Moreover, according to rumors, all these companies are controlled by the same person. And, if you dig a little deeper, it turns out that the poor quality of food is understandable. Judging by the reviews of people who worked at these enterprises, the situation there is unbearable - salaries are minimal (and they are delayed), as a result, the staff is extremely unskilled.

“Well, they dispersed competent chefs and cooks. There are Tajiks and Uzbeks at car washes. Dishes are not washed. Russian is neither spoken nor understood. What quality can be discussed? Because they don’t know how, they are not familiar with SanPiN, ”this is how employees of the former Kuntsevo ShBS who could not bear such working conditions speak of working at Koniks-Shkolnik.

The only skill that the management of the combines nevertheless managed to master perfectly is the art of overpricing. That is, to buy cheaper and sell more expensive, the food processing plants of the State Unitary Enterprise Shkolnik, Koniks-Shkolnik and Logarithm do an excellent job with this. After all, the main thing in this business is to know among the suppliers of products for the school table those with whom you can negotiate well. And the best thing, of course, is to buy from yourself.

For example, the main supplier of Koniks-Shkolnik is an enterprise with the same name - Koniks LLC. As a result, prices for the most popular products (eggs, bread, milk, pasta) are doubled. In what proportion the food supplier and the food supplier divide the fat between themselves, one can only guess. But food does not get better from such mutual offsets.

It is not only the price that raises questions, but also the quality of the products purchased by the school catering plants. Why do children, for example, not even want to eat cutlets or sausages, because at home they usually go “with a bang”? However, most likely, loving parents, when buying sausages, are not guided by the principles of “what is cheaper”, and take sausages made not according to TU, but according to GOST - they must contain at least 50% meat. But for school meals, the “best” is the cheapest, not the highest quality. Sausages made according to specifications will also come down here - 10% meat, 30% animal fat, skin and poultry meat, the rest is protein-fat emulsions, protein stabilizers, etc. And you want the kids to be tasty? The same goes for meat. Only chilled meat, not frozen, may be used to feed students. But they usually "spit" on it. But freezing allows you to hide the signs of spoilage of the product and supply stale meat to the children's table at the price of fresh.

The quality of the products purchased by the school feeding plants is such that not only parents complain about it, but also the employees themselves, and not only the above-mentioned plants. Here, for example, is what one of its employees thinks about the products purchased by the VITO-1 plant: “I am even afraid to give such meat to my dog, and with this she feeds her children.”

After that, extremely harsh reviews from the parents of those same children are no longer surprising: “It is impossible to eat this food! It's waste! Frozen fruit, moldy bread, fish fingers and other semi-finished products of the worst quality. Children do not eat anything, they go hungry until 3 o’clock in the afternoon, and some until the evening.” Complaints about low-quality products and the use of semi-finished products for the "pets" of this plant are not uncommon; “The kitchen is precooked. The food is tasteless, cold, very often prepared from semi-finished products. Children refuse to eat this, 10 out of 20 servings remain on the table. It’s a pity the money spent by parents on something that you don’t always want to call food ”- this is how those who happened to try them evaluate the“ culinary delights ”from the VITO-1 plant.

Not surprisingly, few school food suppliers are willing to open their kitchens to prying eyes - both literally and figuratively. Workshops where dishes are prepared, warehouses, refrigerators - all this remains behind the scenes. Before my eyes - only ready-made meals that are brought to school canteens. And go prove what they're made of.

Of course, the listed companies are not the only suppliers violating the terms of multi-million dollar government contracts. Since January 2011, catering in educational institutions of the city of Moscow has been carried out by 23 enterprises that have received this right on a competitive basis. And checks by the Department of Education and the State Inspectorate of the City of Moscow on the quality of agricultural products, raw materials and food show that their work often turns out to be, to put it mildly, of poor quality. So, “typical shortcomings” are the lack of the necessary package of documents for products; the presence in table products not intended for children and products with an expired shelf life; deviations from the menu; insufficient assortment of buffet products… One of the most common violations is the unequal replacement of dishes. For example, instead of complex vegetable side dishes, children get mashed potatoes, and instead of potatoes, rice or pasta.

Among the “fined” companies are Moskovsky Shkolnik LLC, Koniks-Shkolnik LLC, KSHP Logarithm LLC, Preschool Nutrition Plant LLC, VITO-1 LLC ...

The State Unitary Enterprise "Perovsky schoolboy" was especially distinguished, which managed to leave the children even without bread - as the audit showed, at school No. 478, the State Unitary Enterprise not only supplies an insufficient number of servings of ready meals (168 servings out of 178), but also almost halved the norms for the supply of bread - 4770 kg instead of the prescribed 7160 kg). Also in this school, fruits and snacks were not presented on the menu, the assortment of the buffet turned out to be extremely limited - only confectionery, juice and drinking water. Needless to say, a meager diet. At the same time, it turned out that some employees of the canteen in the sanitary books did not have information about the presence of vaccinations - including against dysentery.

The situation is no better in kindergartens - food is supplied by the same enterprises, and if schoolchildren at least have a choice (buy something in the buffet or have a bite to eat after school at home), then kindergarteners either have to eat something that was prepared from low-quality products by unskilled cooks, or go hungry all day. As a result - gastrointestinal disorders, allergies, etc.

Each prosecutor's inspection reveals numerous violations of sanitary and hygienic standards in the kitchens of preschool institutions. Only in March, after inspections of kindergartens in Moscow, 17 cases were initiated. For example, in kindergartens Nos. 125 and 763, employees of the catering unit do not follow the washing of kitchen utensils, quality control of products was carried out with violations, and to top it off, the cooks used leftovers for cooking - that is, in fact, they fed the children with yesterday's leftovers. In kindergarten No. 1960, violations were found in the arrangement, equipment, maintenance of the catering unit, food storage, and sanitary maintenance of the premises. Not everywhere are the rules for storing food for children. For example, rotten vegetables were found in kindergarten No. 776, and the storage temperature was not observed in kindergarten No. 328. And in kindergarten No. 701, plus, the staff was not in the habit of undergoing medical examinations in a timely manner ....

And this list is endless. No one controls the quality of both incoming products and dishes going to the table for children; personnel with invalid sanitary books; yesterday's lunch as today's breakfast; poorly washed dishes; dirt in the catering department… Unfortunately, for the nutrition of schoolchildren and preschoolers, such a situation is not an exception, but rather the norm, although can this be considered normal? However, from the point of view of an unscrupulous supplier - probably yes. Why change something if no one has died yet? And you can ignore the “little things” such as allergies, chronic gastrointestinal diseases or the risk of catching dysentery.

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At the parents' meeting, the teacher said that parents can also have lunch in the school cafeteria. Invited those who work close to come to dinner. So, if parents are invited to the school cafeteria, then they will let any stranger in? What about the safety of our children? - the reader addressed to edition.

There is indeed a lot of talk about the safety of schoolchildren. After several emergencies in schools, they promised to tighten the access control: put up turnstiles and allow pupils and teachers to pass only with plastic cards. Therefore, Komsomolskaya Pravda went to several metropolitan schools to check whether a stranger could come to lunch in the school canteen. We visited several educational institutions in the city center not far from our editorial office.

“Teachers were stopped several times, and the children were escorted to the canteen”

At the gymnasium on Independence Avenue, a security guard meets you at the entrance.

How do you get to the dining room? - I ask.

And who are you? - the man is interested.

I just want to come in for lunch.

Is there someone waiting for you there?

No. I want to have lunch, - I repeat again. - May I come in? I do not for a long time.

The guard looks incredulous, but lets him into the school. The dining room is located far from the entrance. I go in the direction where the guard showed, but I run into a wall. Children, noticing a stranger, turn around.

Girls, how to get to the dining room?

Two students begin to tell: go up the stairs - go left - go down. They understand that I didn’t remember, and then they say:

Let's do it! - the girls go with me almost to the dining room.

But here to the left, - the students say and run away to the lesson. I take a wrong turn and end up in the gym.

Where are you? - the teacher in sports uniform stops me. I explain that I want to get into the dining room, and she shows me where to turn.

Today's menu includes mashed potatoes, fish and mushroom soup. The food looks appetizing and homemade. The buffet offers salads, fresh vegetables, sandwiches and sweets. And the prices don't bite. The most expensive salad is with crab sticks, it costs 82 kopecks.

So, we ended up in the gymnasium dining room. True, it took several minutes to explain to the janitor and teachers who I am and what I do at school.

"Take off your outer clothes and sign up for a magazine"

At the school not far from the avenue, the access system seemed more serious than at the gymnasium. Before I had time to say hello, I was asked to sign up for the visit log.

Can you get into the canteen?

Yes. Write your first name, last name, - the watchman holds out the magazine.

I take a pen and write.

And the purpose of the visit, - I ask, - what to write?

So write: in the dining room.

Now, under the serious entries “to the director”, “to the reception”, my “to the dining room” flaunts.

Have you already been with us?

No, I answer.

They tell me in detail how to get to the dining room. The school is not crowded: the children have a lesson. On the way I meet a couple of teachers. They do not pay attention to a stranger, where I am going, they are not interested. On the door to the dining room is a leaflet with the inscription "Do not enter in outerwear." This is where the restrictions at school end. For the sake of decency, I take off my jacket and head to the food counter. Buffet and dining room are located here together. You order food at the counter and pay at the buffet cash desk.

I give 47 kopecks for milk soup.

I will owe you 1 kopeck, come to us again, - says the cashier.

Two men and the mother of a schoolgirl are having lunch in the dining room.

The access system at the school was not as harsh as it seemed at first. Enrolled in the magazine - and you can safely go.

“If I’m on watch and miss you, they won’t serve you in the canteen anyway”

They didn't let us into only one gymnasium. By the way, it is the only one of those that we visited, where there are turnstiles.

Even if I let you through here, they still won’t serve you in the dining room, - the watchman good-naturedly explains through the turnstiles. - We have such a system. Outsiders are not served in the dining room. Go to the dining room of the executive committee, not far from here.

We talked with the watchman, I turn around and leave. Didn't make it to the canteen.

At the beginning of the fifth, when we arrived at another gymnasium, the canteen was already closed. But all the same, they learned for the future: a stranger can eat here.

Of course, the children are being fed. Therefore, we have hot lunches and a buffet. The dining room is open on weekdays until four. We are constantly visited by those who work in neighboring buildings. Do you work far? - the watchman is interested.

We walked around the school, examined the stands. You could also go to the dining room, but it was already closed.

Outsiders can come to the dining room of the next school, "if you get on a good watchman."

It's like when. Sometimes the access control is stricter, sometimes weaker, - the woman on duty explains.

We got "good" and went to the dining room.

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« outsiderpeople shouldn't go to school"

Strangers should not walk around the school where minors study. In educational institutions, meals are organized for students. As an exception, parents can eat in school canteens. For example, when some activities are held at school, on the sixth day of school. This applies to all schools, the education committee said.

With a round-the-clock stay, at least five meals a day must be provided. 1 hour before bedtime, as a second dinner, children are given a glass of fermented milk product (kefir, fermented baked milk, yogurt, etc.).

Intervals between meals should not exceed 3.5-4 hours.

It is necessary to observe the rules of personal hygiene by all employees of the catering department without exception.

Healthy persons who have undergone a medical examination in accordance with the current orders and instructions, as well as those who have attended a hygiene training course with passing a test, are allowed to work at the catering unit.

Monitoring compliance with the deadlines for passing (at least once every 3 months) medical examinations is assigned to the school health worker.

Each employee must have a personal medical book, which includes the results of medical examinations, information about infectious diseases, and the passing of the sanitary minimum.

The staff of the catering establishment is obliged to observe the following rules of personal hygiene:

Come to work in clean clothes and shoes;

Leave outerwear, headgear, personal items in the dressing room;

Cut nails short;

Before starting work, wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water, put on clean sanitary clothes in a specially designated place, after visiting the toilet, wash your hands thoroughly with soap, preferably disinfectant;

If there are signs of a cold or intestinal dysfunction, as well as suppuration, cuts, burns, inform the administration and contact a medical institution for treatment;

Report all cases of intestinal infections in the worker's family.

In the catering departments of schools it is strictly prohibited:

When preparing dishes, culinary and confectionery products, wear jewelry, varnish your nails, fasten overalls with pins;

Eating, smoking in the workplace. Eating and smoking are allowed in a specially designated room or place.

Every day, before the start of the shift, the health worker conducts an examination of all exposed surfaces of the body for the presence of pustular diseases in all workers. Persons with pustular skin diseases, festering cuts, burns, abrasions, as well as catarrhs ​​of the upper respiratory tract are not allowed to work, but are transferred to another job. The results of the inspections are recorded in the journal of the established form.

Each catering unit should have a first aid kit with a set of medicines for first aid.

The organization and diet of students in educational institutions are subject to mandatory coordination with the bodies of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision.

Hot meals for students must be organized by classes (groups) at breaks, lasting at least 20 minutes, in accordance with the mode of training sessions. In boarding schools, meals for students are organized in accordance with the daily routine. Each class (group) in the canteen should be assigned certain dining tables.

The organization of serving students with hot meals is recommended to be carried out by preliminary setting tables and (or) using distribution lines.

Preliminary table setting (serving) can be carried out by children on duty over 14 years old under the guidance of a teacher on duty.

The presence of students in the industrial premises of the canteen is not allowed. It is not allowed to involve students in work related to cooking, peeling vegetables, distributing prepared food, cutting bread, washing dishes, cleaning rooms.

List of products and dishes that are not allowed for sale

in public catering educational institutions

1. Food products with expired shelf life and signs of poor quality.

2. Leftover food from a previous meal and food prepared the day before.

3. Fruit and vegetable products with signs of spoilage.

4. Meat, offal of all types of farm animals, fish, poultry that have not passed veterinary control.

5. Offal, except liver, tongue, heart.

6. Ungutted bird.

7. Meat of wild animals.

8. Eggs and meat of waterfowl.

9. Eggs with contaminated shells, with a notch, "tek", "battle", as well as eggs from farms that are unfavorable for salmonellosis.

10. Canned food with broken cans, bombed, "crackers", cans with rust, deformed, without labels.

11. Cereals, flour, dried fruits and other products contaminated with various impurities or infected with barn pests.

12. Any food products of home (not industrial) production.

13. Cream confectionery (pastries and cakes).

14. Brawn, products from meat trimmings, diaphragms; head pulp rolls, blood and liver sausages.

15. Cottage cheese from unpasteurized milk, flask cottage cheese, flask sour cream without heat treatment.

16. Prostokvasha - “samokvass”.

17. Mushrooms and products (culinary products) prepared from them.

18. Kvass.

19. Milk and dairy products from farms that are unfavorable for the incidence of farm animals, as well as those that have not undergone primary processing and pasteurization.

20. Raw-smoked meat gastronomic products and sausages.

21. Dishes made from meat, poultry, fish that have not undergone heat treatment.

22. Deep-fried foods and products;

23. Food products not provided for in Annex No. 9

24. Vinegar, mustard, horseradish, hot peppers (red, black) and other hot (hot) seasonings.

25. Hot sauces, ketchups, mayonnaise, canned snacks, pickled vegetables and fruits.

26. Natural coffee; tonic, including energy drinks, alcohol.

27. Cooking fats, lard or lamb, margarine and other hydrogenated fats.

28. Apricot kernel, peanut.

29. Carbonated drinks.

30. Dairy products and ice cream based on vegetable fats.

31. Chewing gum.

32. Koumiss and other fermented milk products containing ethanol (more than 0.5%).

33. Caramel, including candy.

34. Canned food.

35. Jellied dishes (meat and fish), jellies, herring mincemeat.

36. Cold drinks and fruit drinks (without heat treatment) from fruit and berry raw materials.

37. Okroshka and cold soups.

38. Naval pasta (with minced meat), pasta with chopped egg.

39. Fried eggs.

40. Patés and pancakes with meat and cottage cheese.

41. First and second courses from/based on instant dry food concentrates.

When forming the diet of children and adolescents and cooking, the basic principles of organizing a rational, balanced, sparing diet should be observed, providing for:

• compliance of the energy value (calorie content) of the diet with the age-related physiological needs of children and adolescents;
• providing in the diet a certain ratio (balance) of the main nutrients in grams;
• filling the deficiency of vitamins and other trace elements in the nutrition of schoolchildren by adjusting recipes and using enriched foods;
• the maximum diversity of the diet (diversity is achieved by using a sufficient range of products and various methods of cooking);
• technological processing of products, ensuring the taste of culinary products and the preservation of nutritional value;
• compliance with the optimal diet and the correct distribution of the daily ration for individual meals during the day.

The institution should have an approximate 2-week menu developed on the basis of physiological needs for nutrients and approved standards, and have a sanitary and epidemiological conclusion for compliance with sanitary rules and standards.

Some foods such as bread, milk, meat, butter and vegetable oil, sugar, vegetables should be included in the menu daily. Fish, eggs, cheese, cottage cheese, sour cream can be given 2-3 times a week. Avoid repeating the same dishes throughout the day and for several days.

Breakfast should consist of a snack, a hot dish and a hot drink, it is recommended to include vegetables and fruits.

Lunch should include an appetizer, a first course, a second course (a main hot dish of meat, fish or poultry) and a sweet dish. As an appetizer, you should use a salad of cucumbers, tomatoes, fresh or sauerkraut, carrots, beets, etc., with the addition of fresh herbs. It is allowed to use portioned vegetables (optional garnish) as an appetizer. To improve the taste, you can add fresh or dry fruits to the salad: apples, prunes, raisins and nuts.

Dinner should consist of a vegetable (curd) dish or porridge; the main second course (meat, fish or poultry), a drink (tea, juice, jelly). Additionally, it is recommended to include, as a second dinner, fruits or sour-milk products and bakery or confectionery products without cream.

In the absence of any products, a replacement should be selected for them, equivalent in terms of the content of basic nutrients, according to the product replacement table.

Nutritional standards must comply with the standards approved by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation. For malnourished, weakened children, as well as for adolescents who significantly exceed the norms of physical development, additional nutrition can be provided at the conclusion of a doctor.

In all educational institutions, with the stay of children and adolescents in them for more than 3-4 hours, hot meals are organized, as well as the sale (free sale) of ready-made meals and buffet products (ready-to-eat products, industrial production and culinary products for intermediate nutrition students) in a sufficient range for cash and non-cash payments.

For the organization of additional nutrition for children and adolescents (buffet), bakery products of at least 1-2 items must be on sale. Bakery products (including rich ones) enriched with vitamins (vitamin-mineral mixtures) are sold.

For sale in canteens and canteens of educational institutions, as part of an additional range of food products for free sale, it is possible to recommend cereal breakfast cereals enriched with vitamins and minerals (weighing up to 50 g in a package, except for chips fried in oil), it is limited to include puffed corn, plain crackers without flavoring additives, except for natural ones (dill, garlic, etc.).

In canteens and buffets in educational institutions, flour confectionery products (gingerbread, gingerbread, muffins, rolls, wafers, and other products, except for cream) industrial production in individual portioned (weighing up to 100g) packaging, as well as flour confectionery products can be sold in a limited assortment own production weighing up to 100 g (except products with cream).

From ready-made dishes and home-made culinary products, salads and home-made vinaigrettes (serving size from 30 to 200 g) are recommended for sale in buffets. Salads are dressed directly upon sale. From hot dishes, sausages baked in dough are recommended; boiled sausages with garnish; school pizza (50-1 OOg). Sausages can be cooked immediately before sale using microwave ovens. You can also serve hot sandwiches (with cheese, boiled or semi-smoked sausage, etc.). Hot sandwiches are prepared immediately before sale using convection heating or microwave ovens. The term for the implementation of these products is 3 hours from the moment of preparation with the obligatory use of refrigerated counters.

When organizing preferential meals for students at the expense of budgetary funds (or other sources of funding), it is preferable to organize meals in which all students receive hot breakfasts (on the second shift - afternoon snacks). At the same time, primary school students and children from low-income and socially unprotected families should be provided with full-fledged hot breakfasts in the first place.

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Every parent wants his child to be provided with high-quality balanced school meals that would take into account the needs of a growing organism related to growth, development, changes in environmental conditions, increased physical and emotional stress that children experience at school. In this regard, the main question that parents have is the quality of school meals and its cost. What determines the prices for paid meals in the school cafeteria? Who is responsible for the quality of fresh and finished products? Is it possible to refuse paid food if its quality is not satisfactory? Is it legal for the school administration to force a child to eat in the school cafeteria? These and other questions are answered by "Letidor" lawyer Ksenia Pechenik:

• The issues of the quality and cost of children's nutrition have always been acute, since the life, health and efficiency of the mental and physical activity of a growing organism directly depend on this. This explains the numerous nature of legal acts regulating nutrition issues both at the federal and regional levels. At the federal level, these issues are regulated by the Law "On Education", the Law "On the Sanitary and Epidemiological Welfare of the Population", the Law "On the Quality and Safety of Food Products", Federal Law No. 88-FZ dated June 12, 2008 "Technical Regulations for Milk and Dairy Products" , Federal Law of October 27, 2008 No. 178-FZ “Technical Regulations for Juice Products from Fruits and Vegetables”, Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 5, 1992 No. 431 “On Measures for Social Support for Large Families”, Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of February 28, 1995 No. 221 "On measures to streamline state regulation of prices (tariffs)".

At the regional level, in relation to Moscow and the Moscow Region, these issues are regulated by the Law of the City of Moscow “On the Quality and Safety of Food Products” dated May 24, 2000 No. 13, the Comprehensive Program of Measures for Social Protection of Moscow Residents, annually approved by the Government of Moscow, support of families with children in the city of Moscow” dated November 23, 2005 No. 60, the Production Control Program, the purpose of which is to create conditions at school for the organization and implementation of high-quality and balanced nutrition for students, etc.

However, the abundance of legal acts has little effect on the quality of nutrition in most Russian schools. The fact is that the price of school meals consists of the cost of food, rent, utility bills, staff salaries and taxes, as well as overhead costs, equipment repairs, inventory purchases, etc. In this regard, the menu of a modern student in the school cafeteria today has reached the minimum allowable threshold of sanitary and epidemiological standards. Organizations that enter into municipal contracts with schools for the provision of catering services are forced to simplify the children's diet, saving on fruits, dairy, meat products. As a result, there is an increase in dissatisfaction on the part of parents with the quality of baby food and complaints about high prices.

What to do if parents are not satisfied with the quality of their child's food at school? Is it possible to refuse to eat in a paid school cafeteria?

• Nutrition quality issues are regulated by the Sanitary and Epidemiological Requirements for the organization of meals for students in general education institutions, institutions of primary and secondary vocational education SanPiN 2.4.5.2409-08, approved by the Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the Russian Federation on 23.07. 2008, Sanitary rules "Organization and conduct of production control over compliance with sanitary rules and implementation of sanitary and anti-epidemic (preventive) measures" SP 1.1.1058-01, approved by the Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the Russian Federation on 10.07. nutrition” SanPiN 2.3.2.1940-05, approved by the Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the Russian Federation on January 17, 2005, Sanitary and Epidemiological Requirements for Trade Organizations and the Turnover of Food Raw Materials and Food Products in them SP 2.3.6.1066-01, approved by the Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the Russian Federation on 06.09. 2001, as well as numerous GOSTs, including: GOST R 50647-94 “Public catering. Terms and definitions”, GOST R 51074-2003 “Food products. Consumer information”, GOST R 51740-2001 “Technical specifications for food products. General requirements for development and design”, GOST R 50763-2007 “Catering services. Public catering products sold to the population. General specifications”, GOST R 53105-2008 “Catering services. Technological documents for catering products.

In order to control the quality of raw and finished products, each school should establish a grading commission, which includes doctors and representatives of the school administration and the supplier. They are responsible for what product your child gets. In addition, schools often create commissions to control catering, which include high school students, teachers and parents.

If you are faced with obvious violations of sanitary standards in the school cafeteria, you have the right to file a complaint with the Rospotrebnazdora in your region. The complaint must indicate the time, place, exact address of the school where the violation of sanitary standards was discovered, what they consisted of, as well as the requirement to conduct an inspection and bring the perpetrators to justice under the law. The grounds for appeal may be the recorded facts of the presence of insects, rodents, animals both in food and in food preparation areas, dirt in the catering unit or service hall, food poisoning resulting from eating in the school cafeteria and other violations of sanitary standards. For violation of sanitary and anti-epidemic requirements for the organization of nutrition of the population, the school administration will incur administrative responsibility, provided for in clause 6.6. Code of Administrative Offenses.

If the actions do not affect the quality of the meals, then remember that you can always refuse paid school meals. The fact is that not a single legal act, including the Law of the Russian Federation “On Education”, contains norms providing for the obligatory nature of paid school meals for students of municipal educational institutions. Neither teachers nor the school administration represented by its director can force your child to eat in the school cafeteria.

Often, class teachers or the school administration request a certificate from a medical institution stating that the child is not recommended to eat in the school cafeteria due to the presence of a gastrointestinal tract disease and, as a result, a special diet. This is illegal. So what is the right way to write a school food denial statement? It is enough just to write a statement in free form addressed to the principal of the school that you are ready to provide the child with meals on your own and ask not to force him to eat in the school cafeteria.

“In small schools, as well as throughout our vast country, there is a lot of “interesting” going on. It turns out that in some schools in the Verkhneuralsky district, teachers are strictly forbidden to eat, despite the fact that they do not have a lunch break. Take, for example, the Forstadt rural school. Teachers at this school are not allowed to donate money for meals. Why? Yes, because the accountant of this school, speaking to the teaching staff last academic year, said that teachers cannot eat at school for a number of reasons. First, they do not have the right to use the utensils from which the students eat. And there are no funds to buy separate dishes for teachers. Secondly, in order to accept money from teachers, you need to purchase a cash register, and this is a very expensive pleasure. Thirdly, the food itself will be very expensive, since there should be a profit from this activity, that is, from the food of teachers. And the accountant vetoed, that is, a ban, on the food of teachers with the tacit consent of the director.

Interestingly, are teachers allowed to eat in other schools in our Chelyabinsk region or is it also strictly prohibited?

Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov"

It seemed to us that in these lines the problem is covered very one-sidedly. Therefore, the Verkhneuralsky Carrier decided to consider this situation through the eyes of all participants in this difficult story. “Can teachers eat in the school cafeteria?”- this was our main question.

Sergei Mikhailovich Vaskovsky, Chief Sanitary Doctor of the Verkhneuralsky District:

Teachers have the right to eat in the common canteen if all sanitary and epidemiological standards are observed there. And since the children dine in this dining room, it means that all the conditions are there for this. So why shouldn't teachers? Another thing is that the final decision on catering for teachers in the school canteen is made by the director of this educational institution.

The director of the school, p. Forshtadt, redirected us with this question to the accountant.

Elena Nikolaeva Kolmakova, accountant of the main general education school in Vorstadt:

We have a separate place in our school where teachers cook their own lunch, we can say that there is a special dining room for the teaching staff, where there is a stove and an oven. So in this dining room there is all the necessary utensils. General education institutions are now on standard funding, so we simply do not have the opportunity to pay for the cooks and service staff to provide a separate catering for teachers, there is no budget for this purpose.

Faina Alexandrovna Pavlova, Director of the Municipal Educational Institution "Secondary School No. 1" of the city of Verkhneuralsk:

Earlier, when it was allowed to keep an off-budget account at school, our teachers could eat in the canteen. Today, general education institutions are financed by the state, children receive, in my opinion, full-fledged hot meals completely free of charge. Therefore, today it is not entirely reasonable and justified to open a special separate account for the meals of the teaching staff. However, as far as I know, the teachers of our school do not make it a big problem. Everyone is already used to snacking on homemade food at work. There is a big break between shifts, when teachers can have a quiet lunch in a special room, where there is even a microwave. So our teachers don't complain.

Lyudmila Valentinovna Valeeva, director of "MOU secondary school" No. 2 of the city of Verkhneuralsk:

Our school only has a system of free meals for children, teachers, of course, are not included in this list. Therefore, teachers have to literally have a snack. Basically, I only manage to drink tea in the teacher's room during the break. I personally can only eat fully at home, at eight in the evening.

Yulia Filippova, teacher of mathematics and geometry at the secondary school No. 64 in Magnitogorsk:

This is my first year at this school. I don’t know how it used to be, but now there is a separate table for teachers in the school cafeteria. We buy a hot lunch and pay for it at the common checkout.

Anastasia Mametyeva, teacher at the rural school of Ferchampenoise (Nagaybaksky district):

At our school, teachers can have lunch in the school cafeteria. Only we have a non-cash payment: in the canteen we eat, so to speak, by appointment, and at the end of each month, money for food is taken from our salary. To be honest, I'm surprised that there are schools where teachers do not have the opportunity to have a full lunch. Because, now, as a rule, in rural schools, teachers disappear at work from morning to evening, and “dry drinks” are a direct path to gastritis and other health problems.

From the editor:

We hope to answer the question of the author of the letter: “I wonder if in other schools in our Chelyabinsk region it is possible for teachers to eat or is it also strictly prohibited?” we partially answered. We considered the problem of teachers' nutrition in Verkhneuralsk schools. We believe that the situation is similar in other settlements of the Verkhneuralsk region. However, if you, dear readers, have other information on this subject, please let us know in the comments to this article.