<TABLE id=msgUN border=0 cellSpacing=3 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD id=msgUNsubj vAlign=top> Coffeeshop Chit Chat - F U Minions, F U FTrash !!! F U NEA !!!</TD><TD id=msgunetc noWrap align=right> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=msgtable cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="96%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=msg vAlign=top><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgbfr1 width="1%"> </TD><TD><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR class=msghead vAlign=top><TD class=msgF width="1%" noWrap align=right>From: </TD><TD class=msgFname width="68%" noWrap>Toby Kuntakinte (PouletGeorge) <NOBR></NOBR> </TD><TD class=msgDate width="30%" noWrap align=right>Nov-12 8:23 pm </TD></TR><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgT height=20 width="1%" noWrap align=right>To: </TD><TD class=msgTname width="68%" noWrap>ALL <NOBR></NOBR></TD><TD class=msgNum noWrap align=right> (1 of 9) </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgleft rowSpan=4 width="1%"> </TD><TD class=wintiny noWrap align=right>41152.1 </TD></TR><TR><TD height=8></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgtxt>[FONT=Comic Sans MS,Sans-Serif]These cronies now fucking each other. Sports School is blaming ISS Catering, and I smell a RAT here...[/FONT]
[FONT=Comic Sans MS,Sans-Serif]I suspect Joseph Leford is related to ISS Catering or has vested interests, if not, why the fuck is he writing in as the Publisher, Catering Online ? What the fuck is he trying to PROVE ?[/FONT]
[FONT=Comic Sans MS,Sans-Serif]We do not need such FTrash in Singapore.. READ ON.....[/FONT]
SPORTS SCHOOL FOOD POISONING
<!--close .kicker, if any-->Principal: NEA rated caterer 'A' for past 2 years
<!--start of story text-->OUR school awarded ISS Catering Services the tender to prepare and serve cooked meals on our premises from January 2008 to next month. ('Mr Yap Swee Hoo, 'The sports school should have been more careful'; Thursday). The tender required the caterer to meet the essential requirement of food safety and quality assurance, including cleanliness and proper functioning of all kitchen equipment in their daily operations. The caterer had obtained a Grade A for hygiene standards from the National Environment Agency (NEA) during the past two years.
As part of standard operating procedure, we informed the Ministry of Health and NEA immediately about food-related illnesses. Each time, we instructed the caterer to clean the kitchen and dining hall thoroughly, and carry out NEA's recommendations. The kitchen was reopened only after getting NEA's approval.
In the first incident in January last year, the ministry and NEA could not pinpoint a specific causative agent. We took additional precautions to sanitise living areas of our student-athletes in the boarding facility to reduce a possible cause of infection that could have arisen from other sources.
When the incident recurred two months later, we instructed the caterer to ban a staff member of the caterer immediately after we were told that the worker was infected with salmonella.
In the latest incident, we closed the kitchen immediately and reopened it with NEA's approval. As a precaution, we stopped kitchen operations and instructed the caterer to supply individually packed meals from its central kitchen until next Monday, when our school will break for the year-end school holidays.
The NEA informed our school on Thursday that it had suspended the caterer's operations in our kitchen immediately, a decision that will not affect our daily operations as we had already provided for the meals to be supplied from the caterer's central kitchen.
Deborah Tan (Mrs)
Principal
Singapore Sports School
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SPORTS SCHOOL FOOD POISONING
<!--close .kicker, if any-->Food prepared in school, not at caterer's HQ
<!--start of story text-->I WISH to highlight a few points regarding Wednesday's article ('School caterer has history of poor hygiene').
ISS Catering Services, which catered food for the Singapore Sports School, is a professional and established full-service caterer. Additionally, it is HACCP-certified. HACCP, or Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point, is a systematic, documented and auditable approach to food safety management.
It is the industry's chosen mechanism for assessing, implementing and managing food safety controls.
In order to be certified, ISS must adhere to a robust and disciplined implementation of food safety standards and practices.
Besides catering to the mass market, ISS has a track record of catering for high-profile events whose guests have included heads of state and foreign dignitaries.
To have catered to such events attests to the caterer's capability and ability to conform to high standards of hygiene and service.
The food served at the Singapore Sports School was prepared on the school's premises, not at the company's central kitchen where operations have been running normally.
It must also be noted that despite adopting stringent measures to ensure food safety, there are invariably factors that are beyond the reasonable control of a caterer.
Most of us take the business of catering for granted, but the service provided is so essential to our way of life.
The public should be aware that ISS has a track record of serving hundreds of thousands of meals without any incident over the years.
Joseph Lefort
Publisher, Catering online
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[FONT=Comic Sans MS,Sans-Serif]I suspect Joseph Leford is related to ISS Catering or has vested interests, if not, why the fuck is he writing in as the Publisher, Catering Online ? What the fuck is he trying to PROVE ?[/FONT]
[FONT=Comic Sans MS,Sans-Serif]We do not need such FTrash in Singapore.. READ ON.....[/FONT]
SPORTS SCHOOL FOOD POISONING
<!--close .kicker, if any-->Principal: NEA rated caterer 'A' for past 2 years
<!--start of story text-->OUR school awarded ISS Catering Services the tender to prepare and serve cooked meals on our premises from January 2008 to next month. ('Mr Yap Swee Hoo, 'The sports school should have been more careful'; Thursday). The tender required the caterer to meet the essential requirement of food safety and quality assurance, including cleanliness and proper functioning of all kitchen equipment in their daily operations. The caterer had obtained a Grade A for hygiene standards from the National Environment Agency (NEA) during the past two years.
As part of standard operating procedure, we informed the Ministry of Health and NEA immediately about food-related illnesses. Each time, we instructed the caterer to clean the kitchen and dining hall thoroughly, and carry out NEA's recommendations. The kitchen was reopened only after getting NEA's approval.
In the first incident in January last year, the ministry and NEA could not pinpoint a specific causative agent. We took additional precautions to sanitise living areas of our student-athletes in the boarding facility to reduce a possible cause of infection that could have arisen from other sources.
When the incident recurred two months later, we instructed the caterer to ban a staff member of the caterer immediately after we were told that the worker was infected with salmonella.
In the latest incident, we closed the kitchen immediately and reopened it with NEA's approval. As a precaution, we stopped kitchen operations and instructed the caterer to supply individually packed meals from its central kitchen until next Monday, when our school will break for the year-end school holidays.
The NEA informed our school on Thursday that it had suspended the caterer's operations in our kitchen immediately, a decision that will not affect our daily operations as we had already provided for the meals to be supplied from the caterer's central kitchen.
Deborah Tan (Mrs)
Principal
Singapore Sports School
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SPORTS SCHOOL FOOD POISONING
<!--close .kicker, if any-->Food prepared in school, not at caterer's HQ
<!--start of story text-->I WISH to highlight a few points regarding Wednesday's article ('School caterer has history of poor hygiene').
ISS Catering Services, which catered food for the Singapore Sports School, is a professional and established full-service caterer. Additionally, it is HACCP-certified. HACCP, or Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point, is a systematic, documented and auditable approach to food safety management.
It is the industry's chosen mechanism for assessing, implementing and managing food safety controls.
In order to be certified, ISS must adhere to a robust and disciplined implementation of food safety standards and practices.
Besides catering to the mass market, ISS has a track record of catering for high-profile events whose guests have included heads of state and foreign dignitaries.
To have catered to such events attests to the caterer's capability and ability to conform to high standards of hygiene and service.
The food served at the Singapore Sports School was prepared on the school's premises, not at the company's central kitchen where operations have been running normally.
It must also be noted that despite adopting stringent measures to ensure food safety, there are invariably factors that are beyond the reasonable control of a caterer.
Most of us take the business of catering for granted, but the service provided is so essential to our way of life.
The public should be aware that ISS has a track record of serving hundreds of thousands of meals without any incident over the years.
Joseph Lefort
Publisher, Catering online
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