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The case of meals poisoning of 63 college students in Lamia from faculty lunches shocked public opinion.

“OT” even proceeded with an vital revelation relating to “Giannitsis Logistics” which had undertaken to cowl the feeding wants of the precise models: the corporate of businessman Giorgos Giannitsis, as could be seen from official paperwork posted on Diaugeia, was not the primary time within the highlight.

Two different occasions within the current previous it was discovered to not absolutely adjust to meals security and hygiene requirements.

Particularly, in two choices recommending the project of the companies “Feeding Sufferers & Docs on Responsibility of the Basic Hospital of Lamia” there are two “important observations associated to the non-compliance with the technical specs.

What’s coming to gentle raises affordable questions on the way in which through which faculty meals are assigned and distributed, which issues hundreds of households. How precisely are firms chosen? By what standards? Are there security units? What measures have been taken in order that comparable phenomena don’t repeat themselves sooner or later, in view of the brand new faculty season?

OT contacted the Ministry of Social Cohesion and Household asking all of the above questions and obtained the next solutions:

It’s identified to start with that the manufacturing, processing, packaging, storage, transport and dealing with of meals is carried out in a hygienic method and the respective meals companies ought to implement, keep and assessment HACCP procedures, in accordance with the relevant provisions.

In response to the tender announcement, very strict high quality assurance requirements (see paragraph 2.2.7.), in addition to strict technical specs (see Appendix 1) – Meals security administration programs (HACCP) and meals traceability with particular ISO and requirements.

See the declaration right here

Significantly:

• Faculty meals are produced on the identical day as distribution (cook dinner&serve), excluding the cooling or pre-freezing methodology.

• Meals are delivered to college students in sealed particular person packages.

• Bread and fruit are packed in closed particular person cellophane.

• Meals are transported in particular thermal packing containers (thermobox/isothermal containers) to be able to keep the prescribed temperature.

• Transport automobiles meet all the foundations of hygiene and protected dealing with of merchandise and are topic to checks by particular authorities ranges.

• Their receipt on the faculty models is completed by three-member reception committees, which test the temperature of the meals and macroscopic traits.

22 audits from 2022 to this point

In response to the ministry, this system foresees very strict checks by OPECA and by the well being companies of the Areas and by EFET. Particularly, from 2022 till right this moment, 22 inspections have been carried out on meal manufacturing firms by the OPECA Inspection.

217 thousand college students are fed day by day

The 2021 competitors had a funds of 253 million euros and coated three faculty years. It’s applied in 133 municipalities all through the nation and 217 thousand college students are fed a sizzling meal on daily basis. This system is applied with the participation of 21 firms.

Intensification of checks with blended echelons

Relating to the query of the actions the ministry will take after the case of mass poisoning of scholars in Lamia, and the way it will be certain that comparable phenomena won’t be repeated sooner or later, the ministry states that already in earlier years, in cooperation with competent companies, vital work as to the recording of the mandatory technical specs and security requirements that financial operators should meet.

As well as, OPECA’s inspections of faculties and manufacturing models have been intensified lately, whereas the ministry has requested EFET and the regional well being companies to introduce blended ranges of inspections for manufacturing models.

EODY can be within the battle

For the brand new faculty yr, the ministry is making ready a collaboration with EODY to hold out common systematic checks of faculty meals by competent ranges of EODY in official state laboratories.

The historical past

The general public sector and particularly public organizations, as all the things exhibits, are a privileged discipline of motion for “Giannitsis Logistics”.

The corporate of Giorgos Giannitsis has a wealthy historical past of cooperation with the State. One thing that additionally “advertises” by means of the corporate web site on the Web.

In response to “Diavgeia”, since 2016 it has been contracting with public companies and organizations, particularly with the Municipality of Lamia, which entrusts the feeding of the scholars of the Music Faculty of Lamia to Giannitsis Logistics A.E.

Primarily based on the identical knowledge, the annual contracts to cowl the feeding wants of scholars are between 120 and 150,000 euros per yr and with the “parentheses” of the pandemic, which compelled the closure of faculty models, they’re executed with out issues.

The truth is, the contracts have been prolonged when the circumstances, such because the shutdown of the Music Faculty of Lamia attributable to COVID19 and the time-consuming technique of a brand new competitors, imposed it.

The feeding of the scholars of T.E.I. Central Greece can be an vital job for the companies of G. Giannitsis and certainly an important.

It’s the one which secures probably the most income in comparison with others within the Training sector because the annual value – throughout the contracts – for feeding the scholars in Lamia, Amfissa and Karpenissi is near 600,000 euros.

The Basic Hospital of Lamia contributes equally considerably to the turnover of the Giannitsi firm with an estimated annual quantity of greater than 500,000 euros, throughout the period of the contracts.

In fact, the corporate additionally has contracts with different municipalities in mainland Greece, such because the Municipality of Amfikleia – Elateia, for the availability of academic buildings akin to kindergartens, but additionally the Regional Unit of Fthiotida for the supply of feeding companies to social buildings such because the “Help Construction for Social Actions Integration – Bridge”, with a month-to-month value of 14,238 euros (for the Bridge”), an quantity that’s repeated in Cost Orders of the Regional Improvement Fund of Central Greece (28/4/2020, 25/5/2020).

Complaints from mother and father

The tangle started to unravel after the mass meals poisoning of at the least 63 college students from 7 totally different colleges, who consumed faculty lunches manufactured by the corporate “Giannitsis Logistics”, with mother and father continuing with dozens of lawsuits over the incident.

The president of the affiliation of oldsters and guardians of the seventh main faculty of Lamia, Maria Zografou, talking to Lamia Polis 87.7, known as on the mother and father to report the incident to the police station.

In response to the examination of the samples carried out by EODY, the staphylococcus microbe was detected within the faculty lunches.

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