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City to teach street vendors sanitation
The city administration and the Jakarta branch of the Food and Drug Monitory Agency (BPOM) will cooperate to establish a pilot project to improve the sanitary practices of street-food vendors and the quality of food they sell
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he city administration and the Jakarta branch of the Food and Drug Monitory Agency (BPOM) will cooperate to establish a pilot project to improve the sanitary practices of street-food vendors and the quality of food they sell.
BPOM Jakarta head Dewi Prawitasari said the four areas targeted in the pilot project were Setiabudi, Blok S and Melawai in South Jakarta and the IRTI vendors at the National Monument (Monas) park in Central Jakarta.
Dewi said her agency and the Cooperatives and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and Trade (KUKMP) Agency would provide training for vendors on food safety and healthy cooking in the four areas. She said the goal of the project was to encourage vendors to cook and sell food in line with good health standards.
'We will periodically checkup on them each month. If the one-year pilot project is proven to be a success, we will expand the project,' Dewi told reporters at City Hall on Wednesday.
She said many street vendors currently used too much salt, sugar, additives and dangerous chemical substances. (***)
