Tremorfa school's food safety panto fun

Monday 18 June 2001

Children at St Albans Roman Catholic Primary School, Tremorfa, Cardiff have been learning all about good food hygiene thanks to the Food Standards Agency Wales' wacky kitchen pantomime.

The fun was brought to ten primary schools to coincide with Food Safety Week. FSA Wales and the City and County of Cardiff worked in partnership to raise the issue of good food hygiene directly to youngsters through Cinderella, her ugly sister and some less than welcome kitchen inhabitants including bacteria, salmonella and E-coli.

Teachers at each school also benefited from a new CD-Rom produced by the British Nutrition Foundation. Teaching Food Safety in Schools covers a wide range of important topics including food hygiene, food labelling, allergies and health. FSA Wales is helping the BNF to distribute the CD-Rom to every school in Wales, and hopes that practising primary school teachers will use it as part of their continuing professional development.

Ann Hemingway, the Agency's Board Member for Wales and Chairman of the FSA Wales Advisory Committee said: "One of the FSA's key priorities is to reduce food-borne illness by 20 per cent within five years, by improving food safety right through the food chain. Educating our young people so that they develop a good understanding of food safety and hygiene is an important step in helping to prevent food poisoning incidents, to which they are particularly susceptible."

News contact: Kathryn Corcoran (029) 20 678915

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