- Title
- Development of a manual to train food handlers of the national school nutrition programme
- Creator
- Barkhuizen, Kirsten Lyn
- Subject
- Food -- Safety measures
- Date Issued
- 2019
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MSc
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/36559
- Identifier
- vital:33974
- Description
- The study was conducted in order to develop a hygiene and food safety manual that can be used to train the food handlers of the National School Nutrition Programme. The co-operation of the Institute for International Medicine, Partnerships with Children, as part of the Health in Action Programme in this study, is appreciated. Food handlers of the National School Nutrition Programme in low socio-economic schools, in the Nelson Mandela Bay, in the Eastern Cape, were the population of the study. With many South Africans experiencing poverty and food insecurity, the National School Nutrition Programme aims to provide a social safety net and address short term hunger in children. However, challenges are faced regarding the implementation thereof, such as a lack of training of food handlers. This results in poor hygiene and food safety knowledge and behaviour. Subsequently, the risk of transmission of foodborne pathogens and the contamination of food rises. Foodborne illnesses are a major cause of morbidity and mortality, specifically in children, due to weak immune systems. Therefore, the study was conducted in order to develop and test a hygiene and food safety manual so that it can be made available to the South African Department of Education to be used by teachers in order to train the food handlers of the National School Nutrition Programme. The manual can then be used to train all newly recruited food handlers, and therefore ensure that school meals are safe to consume by learners.
- Format
- xviii, 73 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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