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Safe, healthy food for primary school kids |
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Health
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Wednesday, 21 April 2010 23:51 |
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KUWAIT: Education minister Dr. Moudhi Al-Humoud has emphasized the Ministry of Education's (MoE) eagerness to ensure that it provides a safe and healthy diet for primary school children.
Responding to recent reports in local daily Al-Rai expressing doubts over the bids put forward by various firms to supply catering services for local primary schools, Dr. Al-Humoud issued a statement stressing that the ministry would never accept any illegal behavior or attempts to interfere in ministry decisions to win catering or any other supply tenders.
The minister also stated that the initial tender to provide school meals for primary school pupils had been cancelled due to the unrealistically high costs cited by those firms submitting bids, with the subsequent bids for the lower-priced tender set to save the state around KD 10 million in total.
On the subject of a Ministry of Health (MoH) report stating that one of the three catering firms which submitted bids was located in an industrial area, Dr. Al-Humoud pointed out that nothing in the report indicated that the company's products did not comply with health, hygiene and safety standards, which they do. "On the contrary," she said, "the Ministry of Health itself has a three-year contract with a catering firm located in an industrial area to provide meals to its hospitals. - Kuwait Times
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