Curtain up on food safety

Students in south Warwickshire will be performing plays to local school children with a difference as part of National Food Safety Week, 12 - 16 June, an annual campaign aimed at highlighting simple precautions to avoid suffering from food poisoning.  

Stratford-on-Avon District Council and Stratford-upon-Avon College are working together to raise awareness of food safety and healthy eating through a series of theatre in education targeted at primary schools across the District.  

The focus for this year's campaign and raising awareness is of the 4C's for food safety; cleanliness, cooking, chilling and cross contamination.  

The performers will aim to encourage good personal hygiene amongst children, and to eat healthily by performing fun and informative plays which include: Retro Redriding Hood; Food Rockers; Clean Team; Adventures of Splidge and Splodge and Just Peachy.  

Performances will be delivered to 47 primary schools across the district reaching in the region of 15,000 children.  

In 2005 there were nearly 80,000 reported cases of food poisoning in the UK.  Whilst these figures are down on those of a decade ago, many more go unreported and therefore uninvestigated.