Changwon Special City Seongsan-gu Conducts Intensive Inspections of Businesses Cooking and Selling Children’s Favorite Foods

Promoting measures so that children can purchase food safely
with the start of the new semester

Seongsan-gu of Changwon Special City is conducting intensive guidance and inspections of businesses that cook and sell children’s favorite foods around schools and private education institutes to mark the start of the new semester.

An official from Seongsan-gu's Culture and Sanitation Division conducting an inspection.

This inspection is being carried out to strengthen hygiene management so that children can purchase food in a safe environment and to encourage healthy eating habits.

The inspection period runs until February 27, and an inspection team of 11 people in 3 groups, including the Hygiene Management Team and dedicated managers for children’s favorite foods, will inspect 15 schools within the district and 75 businesses that cook and sell children’s favorite foods in one designated private education zone. However, restaurants that have been designated with a hygiene grade are excluded from the inspection.

The main items of inspection are: whether products past their consumption-by date are used, cooked, sold, or stored; whether business operators have undergone health checkups and completed hygiene education and other personal hygiene management; the hygiene status of cooking and sales facilities; whether there is any unreported business operation or sale of unlabeled products; whether high-calorie, low-nutrition foods and high-caffeine foods are being sold; and whether foods that may negatively affect children’s emotional well-being are being sold.

Kim Suyun, head of the Culture and Sanitation Division, said, "It is more important than anything else to create an environment where children can safely purchase food," adding, "We will continue to strengthen food safety management around schools in the future."