Santo Domingo.- Education minister Melanio Paredes last night announced the total suspension of the beleaguered school breakfast program citing lack of guarantees to preserve the health and even the lives of the students.
The official told news source listin.com.do that president Leonel Fernandez himself recommended the measure and confirmed five new cases, four girls and one boy, sickened by the school breakfast in two schools in Haina (south) last night, who were taken to the local hospital.
Just hours after the program resumed in public schools on Tuesday, 17 children in two grade schools in central Cotuí had to be hospitalized with symptoms of food poisoning, after drinking milk and eating sponge cake provided by the dairy company Maria, of San Francisco (central).
Shortly after Paredes confirmed the report but noted that it wasn’t poisoning, and “lactose resistance” instead.
“Before those events and a series smaller events which occurred betwee yesterday and today and on president Fernandez’s instructions I announce that as of this Friday the school breakfast will not be provided in any school in the country, neither solid nor liquid,” the official said.
Written by: skysail, 4 Feb 2011 8:55 AM
From: Libya
All caused by Grrrrreeeeeeeeeeeed the Dominican way of living .........
From: United States
Finaly an admission now they can correct the problem.
Or will they take the easy way out and not spend any more money on education any more.
What is wrong with fresh fruit for schools it is much more nutrisious than sponge cake.
Any relatives on the fruit board so that they can make a deal????
From: United States
"Dominican Government admits school breakfast failure"
AND ?
From: United States
nothing will be done.................as usual
From: Dominican Republic
God damm just give them Orange Juice with a banana orange and apple.
From: Dominican Republic, Santiago de los 30 Caballeros
Like the old saying goes, "if you want a job done right, do it yourself", in other words parents that want their precious children to be well fed will have to take it upon themselves. End of story.
From: Dominican Republic, Puerto Plata
"Dominican Government admits school breakfast failure"
2 words should be stricken from this title.
It should read:
"Dominican Government admits failure"
Written by: abc200, 4 Feb 2011 10:46 AM
From: United Kingdom, Dominican Republic
Bring in the Indians and let them run it. They run the biggest school meals program in the World with some kitchens supplying 100,000 children hot/warm food.
S.
From: United States, Omnipresence
Phuck a bunch of "indians!"....I agree with "Jim" on the fruit thing...what the hell is the problem?
Written by: abc200, 4 Feb 2011 11:02 AM
From: United Kingdom, Dominican Republic
China has been having problems as well!
China campaigning on school food safety
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-05-12 20:01BEIJING - China's Ministry of Education and the State Food and Drug Administration have jointly launched an eight-month campaign to ensure food safety in school dining halls.
The campaign will run from May to December and focus on food services certification, sanitation, workers' health, dish washing, food processing and food additives, according to a statement released Wednesday.
Local schools have been ordered to check food-safety conditions in their dining halls and remedy any defects, to improve food standards and ensure the health of students, the statement said.
In April, a milk company suspended production after its milk was blamed for the vomiting and stomachaches of about 200 middle and primary school students in northwest China's Shaanxi Province.
An investigation showed filling machines' valve shafts at the company's operations had corroded.
S
From: United States, Omnipresence
Sooo....the Chinese have been eatin' Dominican School Breakfasts also?
Written by: xwill7, 4 Feb 2011 11:13 AM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
abc move to china already
Written by: okian, 4 Feb 2011 11:19 AM
From: United States
Same old same old..........INCOMPETENCE at the highest levels
From: United States
If I remember my story on the tainted milk in China the owners were executed along with the minister in charge.
In the DR the minister gets a medal.
From: United States, Brooklyn
The answer lies in finding a new supplier not terminating the program!
From: Dominican Republic, Puerto Plata
Carlos
The hiatus in breakfast service was precisely for that: organize new supply.
Probably same useless scumbags that changed their company name, but went on feeding the kids the same schnitt.
The worst part is : those guys can´t run a school breakfast service wihout poisoning the kids. I wonder what the country's condition really is like once you remove all the cover-ups.
Dreadful.
Written by: jcl_67, 4 Feb 2011 6:50 PM
From: Dominican Republic
bs, they wanted this to happen, this way they can keep the funds and split it amongs leonels gang of political thugs
From: United States
What a joke. No accountability and now this news story will fade away. I for one will not forget how our government and especially LF let our children get poisoned by school food and did nothing about it.
From: United States
you gotta love this
symptoms of food poisoning, after drinking milk and eating sponge cake
drinking milk and eating sponge cake. you have to be kidding me! i refuse to believe that a school breakfast program includes esponjoso! these are demented creatures! with all the nutritious foods available in the world, these cretins feed school children some useless rubbish like sponge cake, which has less than no nutritional value?i give up. there is no hope.
From: Dominican Republic, Puerto Plata
Dread,
who cares about nutritional value?
It's economic value they're after.
Zero nutrition. Money for nothing.
From: United States
dreadlocks you are correct. Our country produces and exports some very nutritious and delicious fruits and this is what our government supplies to our children in school? Somebody needs to corner LF and get some answers to questions like these from him.
From: United States
Veronica, when i went to school, the school lunch was a glass of fruit juice, and an empanada. those were baked versions, not fried. but they had nutritious qualities , and they were cheap to make. what the heck is some sponge cake doing in a school meal, when kids can get some meat, along with other members of the food groups?
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Or will they take the easy way out and not spend any more money on education any more.
What is wrong with fresh fruit for schools it is much more nutrisious than sponge cake.
Any relatives on the fruit board so that they can make a deal????
"Dominican Government admits school breakfast failure"
AND ?
Like the old saying goes, "if you want a job done right, do it yourself", in other words parents that want their precious children to be well fed will have to take it upon themselves. End of story.
2 words should be stricken from this title.
It should read:
"Dominican Government admits failure"
S.
China campaigning on school food safety
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-05-12 20:01BEIJING - China's Ministry of Education and the State Food and Drug Administration have jointly launched an eight-month campaign to ensure food safety in school dining halls.
The campaign will run from May to December and focus on food services certification, sanitation, workers' health, dish washing, food processing and food additives, according to a statement released Wednesday.
Local schools have been ordered to check food-safety conditions in their dining halls and remedy any defects, to improve food standards and ensure the health of students, the statement said.
In April, a milk company suspended production after its milk was blamed for the vomiting and stomachaches of about 200 middle and primary school students in northwest China's Shaanxi Province.
An investigation showed filling machines' valve shafts at the company's operations had corroded.
S
In the DR the minister gets a medal.
The answer lies in finding a new supplier not terminating the program!
The hiatus in breakfast service was precisely for that: organize new supply.
Probably same useless scumbags that changed their company name, but went on feeding the kids the same schnitt.
The worst part is : those guys can´t run a school breakfast service wihout poisoning the kids. I wonder what the country's condition really is like once you remove all the cover-ups.
Dreadful.
symptoms of food poisoning, after drinking milk and eating sponge cake
drinking milk and eating sponge cake. you have to be kidding me! i refuse to believe that a school breakfast program includes esponjoso! these are demented creatures! with all the nutritious foods available in the world, these cretins feed school children some useless rubbish like sponge cake, which has less than no nutritional value?i give up. there is no hope.
who cares about nutritional value?
It's economic value they're after.
Zero nutrition. Money for nothing.