Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has recently revised IS 6541: 2024, a code that recommends hygienic conditions required for the preparation of food/meals in schools.
BIS would soon approach the State government to discuss the revised code and seek coordination on implementation of the standard in Tamil Nadu.
The code was published in 1972 to prescribe a basic standard for maintaining hygienic conditions in kitchens and food transport vehicles and covered only noon meal programmes then.
The new code has covered the broad contours of food safety and hygiene measures to be adopted in various levels of schools, including creches.
It has excluded facilities for infants up to 22 months for now.