CHILDREN across Bath & North East Somerset will be learning
about food hygiene, cleanliness and the importance of eating a
healthy diet this week – National Food Safety Week 2005.
Bath & North East Somerset Council’s Food and Trading
Standards Team has arranged for a theatre education group to visit
six schools and perform Captain Cholesterol and the Grannies from
Mars.
This fast paced comedy musical explores everything from food
hygiene, the fours C’s (cleaning, cooking, chilling and
cross-contamination), what constitutes a healthy diet and the
benefits of hand washing and safe food preparation.
Cllr Vic Pritchard, Executive Member for Housing and Community
Safety, said: “Bath & North East Somerset Council wanted to
spread the food safety message locally in an interesting and fun
way involving local schoolchildren and this was an ideal way to do
it.”
The six schools taking part are St Saviour’s Junior School in
Larkhall, Fosseway School in Midsomer Norton, Saltford C of E
Primary, Oldfield Park Junior School, Bathwick St Mary C of E
School and St Stephen’s C of E School in Lansdown.
All six of these schools are also participating in Bath &
North East Somerset Council’s year long Food for Life Project which
increases the proportion of unprocessed, locally sourced and
organic food being served in school kitchens
National Food Safety Week is now in its 13 year. Its focus for
2005 is to encourage more people to wash their hands – particularly
after they have used the toilet.
Findings have revealed that up to half of men and a quarter of
women fail to wash their hands after they’ve been to the
toilet.
Did you know?
- We have between 2 and 10 million bacteria between fingertip
and elbow
- Damp hands spread 1,000 times more germs than any dry
hands
- Germs can stay alive on hands for up to three hours
For more information about National Food Safety Week log on to
www.foodlink.org.uk
