Public Health Ministry to prevent spoiled milk sold to schools

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Public Health Ministry to prevent spoiled milk sold to schools

BANGKOK, 2 October 2015 (NNT) - The Ministry of Public Health has stepped up measures to prevent spoiled milk from being delivered to schools.

Public Health Minister Piyasakon Sakonsatayatorn disclosed that provincial public health offices and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have been instructed to launch an investigation into how expired milk was sold to regional primary schools.

82 dairy producers across 40 provinces will be subject to a rigorous probe. The Livestock Department will also join public health and FDA officials in the inspection of the first 40 dairy farms. The inspection is expected to be completed before the end of November.

The remaining 42 dairy producers will be inspected by their respective public health offices to make sure that they adhere to GMP standards.


-- NNT 2015-10-02

[thesetat2013]

Shouldn't it be the schools responsibility whether to accept or reject food or beverage sent to them? So why blame the manufacturer or distributor? Each school that gave expired milk should be sued and fined by the health board for failing to check expiration dates prior to serving that.

All the manufacturers or distributors have to do is say that milk was fresh when it was delivered and the school must have held it past that date before giving it to the kids

[peterjackson]

Just follow the Brown Envelopes.

[slapout]

This crap has been going on for several months,. They found expirery dates that were 4 months out in the future on spoilt milk being served.

One packaging facility has been caught at least 3 times sending bad product to different areas (no blacklist I guess)

The dairy themselves, if set up properly would not be source of spoilage. Milk goes direct from cow to cooling vat, picked up by refrigated tanker and transported to main processing /packaging plant. The spoilage is most likely being caused at the latter facility.

The inspection teams will probably be made up of civil employees in the bridge building department

[doremifasol]

Some people really deserve the guillotine..........

[happynthailand]

I have watched the milk truck bring milk to the school in front of the wifes shop(across the street)

the milk truck drives up to the blue ice chest,dumps box's of milk in the chest,throws a bag of ice on top of the milk,and drives off

kid come and take a box or two of milk,nobody comes out to check the milk if good or not

they have been doing it this way for years

[ableguy]

Shouldn't it be the schools responsibility whether to accept or reject food or beverage sent to them? So why blame the manufacturer or distributor? Each school that gave expired milk should be sued and fined by the health board for failing to check expiration dates prior to serving that.

All the manufacturers or distributors have to do is say that milk was fresh when it was delivered and the school must have held it past that date before giving it to the kids

You are so ignorant, a know all know nothing, these companies have been delivering milk to schools ( they come in a small cardboard box with a push in straw, with a best by date of several weeks in the future, however the milk was sour on arrival at the schools.

It's called your basic simple to understand corruption, graft scam , take your pick.

Money is God here. Get real.