Should homemade snacks be banned from schools?

Posted: November 30th, 2007 - 10:00pm by Doug Powell

The Glamorgan Gazette reports that Mynydd Cynffig Junior School in Wales has banned home-made cakes and biscuits from its Christmas fair to protect pupils’ health and safety, following the 2005 E. coli outbreak, and fears that ingredients could trigger pupils’ allergies.

The Welsh Assembly Government issued a ban on the sale of home-made products in schools in areas affected during the E. coli outbreak, but this guideline was withdrawn when the outbreak was over.

Neil Davies, headteacher of Mynydd Cynffig Juniors, said the school had made its decision to protect pupils, and the school had not received any complaints from parents or grandparents.

“I have got to guarantee the health and safety of the pupils. I’m not doing it to upset anybody.”

As we wrote a couple of years ago, food safety isn't a game, but having the health umpires around to make sure things are running smoothly isn't a bad thing.
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Categories: Food Safety Culture
Tags: Homemade, Risk, Snacks

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Bryan Severns says:

And the snack food industry loves it. I understnd the safety concerns but I really am saddened by the direction this takes us socially. Less involvement from families in school activities, increased use of high calorie, low nutrition, highly proccessed foods that feed corportaions, not communities. This frame of mind would eventually ban things like car pools because some drivers are more prone to accidents than others.I remember a piece last fall from the "blog" or iFSN concerning brownies made in Atlanta being recalled from stores around the country do to Salmonella(I think). Mega production can mean a much greater risk to a larger population. At some point a choice has to made and personally, I'd rather risk the homemade treat.

Posted on March 15th, 2008 - 8:36am

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