Over the next two years, Thailand’s Public Health Ministry is going to try and reduce instances of food poisoning and diarrhea in the country’s public schools by 30%.
Wichai Thienthawon, assistant to the Minister of Public Health, announced the initiative while chairing a seminar on food safety in schools earlier this week.
According to Wichai, diarrhea is the most common food-borne illness affecting Thailand’s school children. He claimed that more than one million people per year were afflicted by the condition, though failed to reveal what proportion of this number were students.
In order to meet its 30% reduction goal, the Public Health Ministry will seek clean raw materials for foods proffered at schools and create an alert system to track food poisoning outbreaks.
The National News Bureau of Thailand reports that the Public Health Ministry will try to affect its proposed 30% reduction by 2015.
