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School meals in Catalonia: surveillance and qualitycontrol

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2001

M Asunción Roset  and
Blanca Gonzalvo
M Asunción Roset*
Affiliation:
Director/Manager School Health Education Programme, Education Department, Generalitat de Catalunya, Via Augusta 202–226, E-08021 Barcelona, Spain
Blanca Gonzalvo
Affiliation:
Parc Científic de Barcelona, GRNC – Grup Recerca Nutrició Comunitària (Community Nutrition Research Group), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
*
*Corresponding author:Email mroset1@pie.xtec.es
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Abstract

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The Education Council of the Catalonian government drew up aprogramme to improve the quality control of school canteens inCatalonia. The objectives of this programme were to contribute todeveloping healthier eating habits in school children through schoolcanteens and to improve school canteen services considering otheraspects such as service, operation, management, end-users, frontlinestaff and supervisors of menu planning.

This paper deals with two programme components aiming at introducingNutrition in the school syllabus and school menu assessment. Variousdepartments, organisations and associations were involved inprogramme development and implementation.

Initial analysis was based on information collected from formaladministrative reports completed by a survey on 100 primary schools.From this preliminary analysis it was concluded that problemidentification needs to be completed by an understanding ofunderlying reasons in order to design adequate solutions andguarantee implementation.

Keywords

School mealsQuality controlChildren's food habitsNutrition education

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Type
Research Article
Information
Public Health Nutrition , Volume 4 , Issue 6a , December 2001 , pp. 1339 - 1341
Copyright
Copyright © CABI Publishing 2001

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