Efforts for Safety and Security of School Lunch

For supplies (foodstuffs) used at Yokohama Municipal School school lunch, we conduct food hygiene inspections to ensure safety and security and to ensure compliance with material standards.

At the Yokohama School Food Education Foundation, which procures supplies, in addition to sampling and inspection of supplies delivered to schools, processed meat products, fish meat kneaded products, frozen foods conducted by traders as pre-school inspections We check the results of allergic substances and histamine tests.

Since fiscal 2024, the Health Education and Food Education Division has been conducting inspections of supplies delivered to each school lunch cooking manufacturer. In anticipation of the procurement of supplies from 2026 onward, the program is being implemented in cooperation with the Yokohama School Food Education Foundation.

We regularly provide training to cooks and business trustees who perform school lunch cooking duties, and strive to maintain and improve the hygiene management of school lunches.

[Reference] I would like to introduce some of the contents of the training.
・Elementary school school lunch: Liaison meeting for private consignment school operators in 2024 (PDF: 2,224KB) (conducted in August 2024)
・Junior high school school lunch: Hygiene workshop for school lunch cooking manufacturers in fiscal 2024 (PDF: 2,814KB) (conducted in July 2024)

For the purpose of providing safe and secure access to school meals for elementary school studenｔ students and parents, we will provide individual explanations to the relevant elementary school studenｔ students and parents in case of incident.

In addition, we will make a comprehensive decision and make a press release based on consideration of the presence or absence of health hazards, the importance of cases of whether or not it is dangerous foreign matter, the impact of discontinuing the provision of school lunch, and the magnitude of the impact of several schools. Specifically, I think of the following.

(1) If a student in elementary school studenｔ suffers health damage
(2) Significant events involving elementary school studenｔ students (if they are recognized as being subject to compliance due to serious crisis management negligence)
(3) If one or more menus are canceled at multiple schools

We will make a press release based on these guidelines, but we will review them as necessary in light of changes in social conditions.
These guidelines shall be shared by Yokohama City School school lunch.

Based on the "cancellation of wheat rice" and "change of menu contents of meat and potatoes" that occurred in June 2024, and the case of "spoofing pork production area" that was discovered in other local governments in fiscal 2023 and affected in Motoichi, we further strengthened our efforts to ensure the safety of foodstuffs in school lunch, as well as measures to secure alternative food when urgent events arise.

In the event that school lunch is unable to provide due to an emergency case (the staple food or side dishes are missing), we may offer emergency provisions curry for school meals as a substitute for school lunch. We do not use 28 items such as allergic specific raw materials.
※28 specified raw materials…Shrimp, crab, walnut, wheat, buckwheat, eggs, milk, peanuts (peanuts), almonds, abalone, squid, orange, cashew nuts, kiwi fruit, beef, sesame, salmon, mackerel, soybeans, chicken, banana, pork, macadamian nuts, peaches, yamaimo, apples, gelatin

On July 31, 2024, we concluded an agreement with Yokohama Sogo Bread Co., Ltd. on the procurement and supply of alternative foods. In the event of an emergency, bread can be provided depending on the situation.