Zhe Jiang University educates children on food safety, spreading the word to families and changing society

If World Food Safety Day is about spreading information about food safety, then the Zhe Jiang University’s 2020 project must be declared a roaring success. The Department of Food Science and Nutrition team in the College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhe Jiang University, established a “Food Safety Popularization on Campus” project for World Food Safety Day last year, with the aim of educating young people through basic science lectures, micro-class competitions, webcasts, theatrical performances and a free app.

Since their 7 June event last year, children from ten schools in the Hangzhou province have taken part in more than forty exciting activities devised by the team, which is led by Professor Shen Lirong. And the team’s activities haven’t stopped there. As World Food Safety Day 2021 approaches, they are continuing with their successes and have recently spent time at West Lake Primary school, where the children have said they’d like to be involved in any other activities and have already told friends, parents and relatives about what they’ve learnt. The University department has dubbed them “little angels spreading knowledge about food safety” as it continues with its successful model.