Chapter 1

THE PROPBLEM

Introduction

A school canteen must be a free from dirt and safe environment . Performing safe
personal sanitation for the staff member , being aware about storing of food , keeping food
at the right condition maintaining neatness are the steps the staff must take to always ensure
a safe consumption of food . Acording to the study of titcombe (2010), the school canteen is a
greatplace that heps promote an enjoyment of eating healthy . The food purchased makes a
significant contribution to the students who use canteen regularly in their total food intake
and nutrition . Therefore , ensuring the best food possible makes sense to take information
presented to them and enhance their ability to learn in class.

Reinforcing skills, knowledge and behaviors about lifestyle of healthy eating that
are tought in the classroom are the important rule that the canteen plays withing the broader
School environment. The vital rule of the canteen is to create a school culture healthy eating
and promote healthy foods. The provide food at the school has a considerable influence on
the childrens development of long term eating habits , attitudes towards the food and their
preferred food. (Halton, 2015).

According to the study of (Santacruz, 2016). Revealed that health practices and
support teaching are the two ways in that school canteens lead to a significant impact in a
school life. Health practices and proper nutrition includes the provisions of special dietary
precondition for some staffs and student’s and in being field of school which can easily
become a concern if specific arent put in place to put a stop on this . School members such as
administrator and canteen committees have to fead staffs and students properly of their
responsibility . The school administration should guarantee that the canteen meet national
standards for food preparation storage, hygiene and safety. Failure to do so can result to
staffs and students who consume the fare to have a serious health problems. The appropriate
knowledge and skills to the type of food they are receiving, preparing , storing and serving
shoud be organited by the food handlers particularly if it is potentially dangerous or is not
going to be througly looked immediately prior to utilitation food safety is assential in school
because children can be vulnerable to food-borne disease .