Liaoning East Daia Zhijin high school many people vomit diarrhoea: the official initial judgment of the dining room improper processing, parents said previously repeatedly reflect the quality of meals

On the evening of September 16, a number of students of the Middle School of East Daia River Zhijian County suddenly experienced nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and other symptoms, some students were sent to medical treatment.Parents and students subsequently posted on-line videos on the Internet, questioning the quality and health problems of school dining in the school dining.The Office of the Food Safety Commission of the county the following day, initially judging that the incident was caused by acute gastrointestinal inflammation caused by the food processing of the school dining room, and the education department then temporarily took over the school dining room.

The incident quickly caused attention, not only because of a concentrated student physical discomfort, but because parents have publicly stated that the dining room problem has been reflected by students many times before. Students and parents video of overseas Chinese collective protest recording project "Yesterday" have shown past complaints about food foreign materials, degraded food materials, and said the school has long responded to questions with low-cost meals and internal management methods. Now students have collective symptoms, so that previously seen as "food difficult to eat" "management chaos" problems, directly transformed into campus food safety responsibility.

Students focused on medical treatment, official initial judgment of "inappropriate processing operations"

The information released by the Office of the Food Safety Commission of Zhejiang County showed that around 19 a.m. on September 16, the school had symptoms of nausea, vomiting and other symptoms. After the reception of local organized medical institutions, some students left the hospital after treatment, and other students were hospitalized for infusion observation, there were no serious or dangerous cases. The local preliminary judgment, the incident was related to the school dining room food processing operation, and the following will be held accountable according to the results of the investigation.

From the video uploaded by parents, more parents and students gathered around the school and hospital that night. Some people said in the video that the symptoms of symptoms were mainly concentrated in the middle school, and there were parents questioning the school did not explain the situation to all parents in a timely manner.

* Parents have previously complained about the quality of the kitchen

The public material summarized by the “Yesterday” project shows that before the event, students and parents on social platforms reflected the poor quality of the meal in the East Daewoo Central School dining room, involving the appearance of foreign substances in the dishes, the abnormal status of the ingredients and the hygiene of the meal, etc. These historical complaints about whether there is a direct causal relationship with the September 16th event, need to be judged on the basis of the testing and survey results, but at least indicate that the student's dissatisfaction with the quality of the dining room was not the incident that night suddenly appeared.

Some online videos also circulate the responsibility of the school to refund a meal fee of approximately 7 yuan in response to parents’ dissatisfaction. For a hostel school, the high meal fee is not a measure of food safety responsibility. The amount of meal fees charged by the school can not reduce the legal obligations such as the procurement of food materials, processing, sampling, disinfection of dining equipment and the management of employees.

The education department takes over the dining room, meaning the school management has failed

The media on September 18, that the local education department has temporarily taken over the East Deha River Zhiyun Middle School Restaurant and plans to be operated by the public school restaurant team. This handling itself shows that the problem is not just a certain dish, a certain chef's accidental mistake, but whether the school's original dining hall management system can continue to assume the student's collective food safety responsibility.

In recent years, the Ministry of Education, the General Administration of Market Regulation and other departments have repeatedly asked small and medium-sized schools to implement the school's food safety director's responsibility system, and the school's main person in charge is the school's food safety first person. The system requires coverage of procurement acceptance, processing production, food sampling, health management of practitioners and parental supervision. For this event, the real need to find out is not whether there is no timely medical delivery, but from the raw materials entered the campus to the finished product to the table, which management link failed.

The school’s restaurant is not an ordinary restaurant.

The school belongs to the hostel school, the daily diet of students depends heavily on the campus dining room. The average consumer finds that the restaurant’s poor hygiene conditions can choose to leave, but the hostel students do not have the same choice space. The school dining room therefore assumes the continuous food supply responsibility in a closed environment, once the acquisition, storage, processing or disinfection links have problems, the impact often affects a large number of minors at the same time.

This is also the reason why food safety incidents on campus have repeatedly sparked social anger. There is a clear gap in information between students and parents and schools: it is difficult for parents to see the actual situation after the cook, and student complaints are often considered to be "provoking" or "not eating well", while the real ability to check suppliers, inbound tickets, sampling records and after the cook is monitored by schools and regulators.

The next thing to be disclosed is not a phrase "processed", but a complete chain of responsibility.

Following the incident, at least several sets of materials should be left to be verified: the complete menu of the student's eating the day and the food sampling test results; the suppliers and inputs records of the food ingredients involved; the school's daily inspection and repair records of the past year; whether students and parents' previous complaints have been registered and handled; and the responsibilities of the head of the school, the restaurant operator and specific operators.

If the investigation eventually confirms that food processing misconduct leads to a student’s collective acute gastrointestinal inflammation, then the problem can’t just stop at the replacement of the dining room management team. Students previously reflected the questions why the symptoms were not resolved before the concentration occurred, why the school’s internal supervision failed, whether the education and market regulatory authorities had previously checked for hidden hazards, these are all part of the same chain of responsibility.

A group of students take over the dining room after a collective vomiting is a remedy after an accident; a truly effective governance of campus food safety should take place before the child is sent to the hospital.