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Quality control of menus and diets that oversees the City Council through the Municipal Health Service is an indispensable tool for ensuring proper health care.
To further this goal this morning signed a cooperation agreement the mayor, Miguel Ángel Cámara, and the Rector of the University of Murcia, José Antonio Cobacho, led the design and implementation of community nutrition activities and evaluation of nutritional quality , health and sensory collective food services managed by the City.
Both institutions have agreed to implement scientific research to control and evaluation of menus managed by the city of Murcia in school cafeterias, kindergartens, social service centers, summer camps and free time at home meals and other services social restoration.
This will set the quality requirements and evaluation indicators developed to provide menus, and the conditions to be met by the companies to offer a catering service safe and consistent with the characteristics of a healthy diet and acceptable.
The work includes a sensory analysis of the menus since it is designed not only the meals meet the Mediterranean diet, but also meets parameters of texture, size, smell, color and flavor.
The collaboration between the city-through the comprehensive plan for promoting healthy eating and physical activity, "and the University of Murcia," by the Department of Food Technology, Nutrition and Food Science, "is an innovation, since that can translate the scientific methodologies to the daily practice of management, obtaining real improvements in the quality of life related to the health of citizens, especially the nutritional risk groups, such as children and the elderly and dependent.
In this way, it will be possible to establish quality requirements and develop evaluation indicators for the provision of menus and determine the conditions to be met by the companies to offer a catering service safe and consistent with the characteristics of a healthy diet acceptable.
The joint work will lead to the design of a protocol for sensory evaluation, nutritional health hygienic catering services in schools and community.
An example in scientific conferences
The collaboration between the City and the University of Murcia in the control of prepared foods will not start now.
During 2008 and 20098 developed an assessment protocol for meal delivery service for elderly and dependent that achieved significant improvements in service and has been recognized in several scientific conferences.
This analysis will now take place with students.
In recent years the City Health Service provides advice to all schools in the municipality about the menus served in the dining rooms, to ensure they meet appropriate nutritional requirements.
Work is also given in camps organized by the Department of Education in the school holidays.
In addition, on an ongoing basis, in the last 8 years both institutions have worked together in training and food security and nutrition.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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