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08-31-2009, 04:00 PM
Minister of Education Melanio Paredes assured reporters that the quality issues regarding the school breakfast program are a thing of the past. He said that the suppliers now meet all requirements. He said that a commission will report to the public every 6 weeks regarding the lab analysis of the public school breakfast food.
The minister told reporters from Hoy newspaper that Lacteos Dominicanos (Ladom) as well as others that tests showed unacceptable milk supplies have corrected and improved their production processes and their contracts have been renewed. Schools will begin distributing the free breakfasts tomorrow.
Earlier in the year, lab tests of the milk and cake samples detected problems. In one supplier, a high concentration of microbes (300,000 bacteria in each mililiter of milk), was found. In another case, a cake samples were found to contain 32% of high-saturated fats. However, these problems, according to Paredes have been overcome.
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The minister told reporters from Hoy newspaper that Lacteos Dominicanos (Ladom) as well as others that tests showed unacceptable milk supplies have corrected and improved their production processes and their contracts have been renewed. Schools will begin distributing the free breakfasts tomorrow.
Earlier in the year, lab tests of the milk and cake samples detected problems. In one supplier, a high concentration of microbes (300,000 bacteria in each mililiter of milk), was found. In another case, a cake samples were found to contain 32% of high-saturated fats. However, these problems, according to Paredes have been overcome.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#2)