Friday, November 1, 2013

November's Did You Know...SCHOOL MEALS ARE SAFE!

SCHOOL MEALS ARE SAFE!

- School nutrition professionals have rigorous training in food safety and have implemented a HACCP plan. Hazard analysis and critical control points, or HACCP, is a systematic preventative approach to food safety that is used in the food industry.
- School kitchens are among the safest of commercial and institutional food service establishments, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
- School kitchens are subject to at least two health inspections annually conducted by one of our local health departments. C-FB ISD has schools in five cities. Therefore, our food safety program benefits from collective knowledge of Health Department inspectors employed by the cities of Carrollton, Farmers Branch, Irving, Dallas, and Coppell. Our schools averaged a score of 95 on Health Inspections conducted in 2011-12 and we received a perfect score of a 100 eleven times during the year.
- Texas Health Code requires each food establishment or cafeteria have at least one staff member that is certified as a Food Protection Manager. In C-FB ISD, every school cafeteria has at a minimum, two employees that are certified and experts in food safety. Overall, approximately 45% of the cafeteria staff in C-FB ISD are Certified Food Service Managers.

 

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