2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
Kindergartens and schools are next on the list of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, which will be required to comply with certain nutrition standards. This will be one of the main priorities of the newly formed Food Agency.
"We will gradually replace croissants with fruits and vegetables, semi-finished products should disappear from the children's kitchen, and fats will be reduced. It should be clear what should not be eaten in kindergartens and what is useful, "explained the Minister of Agriculture.
In case the government department takes responsibility for the healthy growth and nutrition of Bulgarian children, educational institutions will be obliged to buy and cook the most expensive and useful products on the market.
According to Minister Naydenov, it is high time to stop the practice of schools and kindergartens to buy the cheapest and respectively the lowest quality food.
Unfortunately, at the moment these are part of the many ideas of the government. The responsible institutions did not commit to a deadline for the introduction of food standards in educational institutions.
Since 2008, the EU has been providing Bulgaria with money for milk. And since 2011 and fruit. However, the absorption of funds for these healthy money products in our country is more than unsatisfactory. At the moment, nearly BGN 10 million of European funds have not been used only for free fruits. For the past year the utilization was only BGN 3.4 million out of the due BGN 7.3 million.
The good idea of introducing standards has met with resistance from the various parties involved in the chain. The parents of the children, for example, have calculated that if they feed the children in the gardens daily with standard food, the fee will increase many times over.
The standards would also create a lot of work for local municipalities, committed to budgets and relationships with suppliers.
Recommended:
They Introduce A Norm For The Amount Of Meat In Our Sausages
A new norm for the amount of meat that must be in sausages will be introduced in our country. According to the new requirement, the meat in sausages must be at least 50 percent of the total content. To wear one sausage sausage label, the minced meat in it must be between 70 and 80 percent, explained Lora Dzhuparova from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food to bTV.
They Introduce A Standard For Turkish Baklava
In Turkey, they are introducing a standard for their national dessert - baklava. The authorities in our southern neighbor insist that the cake be produced only from quality products. The Turkish Institute for Standardization - TSE, readily accepted the proposal to introduce a standard in baklava.
They Introduce A Strict Regime For The Sale Of Food In Our Country
Ministers approved the establishment of a National Food Council. It will be a permanent advisory body that will coordinate government policy in the food sector. The newly established body will include representatives of all stakeholders.
They Will Introduce A Minimum Food Quality Threshold
Minimum food quality thresholds are expected to be introduced soon. The Minister of Agriculture Miroslav Naydenov and representatives of large retail chains have agreed on this. This means that the state agency will impose certain requirements that even the cheapest food products in stores must meet.
They Will Not Introduce New Rules For Supermarkets
After a vote in the plenary hall, it became clear that the rules for stricter control over the activities of food chains in our country will not be introduced. The BSP's proposal was rejected after President Rosen Plevneliev vetoed the bill.
