Food safety experts have gone back to
the classroom to deliver ‘lessons’ to more than 90
students.
So far young people studying ‘food tech’ at
two secondary schools – in Northallerton and Easingwold – have
received lessons from environmental health officers.
The officers – from Hambleton and
Richmondshire District Councils worked with pupils interested in
taking the Food Hygiene Level 2 qualification.
They gave them a video tour of an anonymous food business; and
showed them specimens of cockroaches and photographs of dirty food
premises.
“The students asked many interesting and
probing questions,” said Hambleton and Richmondshire District
Council’s Environmental Health Manager, Philip Mepham.
“Many of them are already working in local
food businesses and will be able to put what they have learned into
practice.”
Any secondary school in Hambleton and
Richmondshire interested in a visit from the environmental health
team should contact Maria Bentley, Lead Environmental Health
Officer (commercial), on 01609 767085
June 20, 2011
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