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Public food procurement as a tool for more sustainable and high quality food offer in public institutions

As children spend almost a third of their day in kindergarten or school and consume a large part of their daily energy intake in educational environments, those environments are important factors in the development of healthy eating habits at one hand or unhealthy ones with possible consequence of c...

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Autores principales: Gabrijelčič, M, Fras, N, Ožbolt, P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10597016/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckad160.436
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description As children spend almost a third of their day in kindergarten or school and consume a large part of their daily energy intake in educational environments, those environments are important factors in the development of healthy eating habits at one hand or unhealthy ones with possible consequence of childhood obesity on the other. Strong evidence of the importance of access to healthy and balanced nutrition in schools for children's health is available, and a nutritionally regulated school environment is associated with a lower risk of childhood obesity, which can also be facilitated by a transparent and quality-oriented procurement system. JRC has estimated the value of the European social food service market as sizeable in both reach and force of €82 billion. Progressive and targeted public procurement of food for health can reward food business operators who provide nutritionally balanced meals. According to the EU AP on childhood obesity 2014-2020, action such as use of nutritional criteria in food service procurement should be required in schools and kindergartens. JA Best-ReMaP situation analyses showed that current implementation of public food procurement across EU Member States differs substantially. Project activities aimed to support the establishment of the intersectoral working mechanisms (groups) for the public procurement of foods in participating MSs, to increase the understanding, knowledge and skills regarding public procurement of food/food products in public health and other selected public institutions, to pilot Slovene best practice tool for PFP as optional approach for implementation of the sustainable and high quality PFP procedures and to recommend further institutionalised implementation of the public procurement procedure for foods, based on quality standards, in the Member States and propose minimum criteria for sustainable public procurement, in line with the developments at the European Commission level.
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spelling pubmed-105970162023-10-25 Public food procurement as a tool for more sustainable and high quality food offer in public institutions Gabrijelčič, M Fras, N Ožbolt, P Eur J Public Health Parallel Programme As children spend almost a third of their day in kindergarten or school and consume a large part of their daily energy intake in educational environments, those environments are important factors in the development of healthy eating habits at one hand or unhealthy ones with possible consequence of childhood obesity on the other. Strong evidence of the importance of access to healthy and balanced nutrition in schools for children's health is available, and a nutritionally regulated school environment is associated with a lower risk of childhood obesity, which can also be facilitated by a transparent and quality-oriented procurement system. JRC has estimated the value of the European social food service market as sizeable in both reach and force of €82 billion. Progressive and targeted public procurement of food for health can reward food business operators who provide nutritionally balanced meals. According to the EU AP on childhood obesity 2014-2020, action such as use of nutritional criteria in food service procurement should be required in schools and kindergartens. JA Best-ReMaP situation analyses showed that current implementation of public food procurement across EU Member States differs substantially. Project activities aimed to support the establishment of the intersectoral working mechanisms (groups) for the public procurement of foods in participating MSs, to increase the understanding, knowledge and skills regarding public procurement of food/food products in public health and other selected public institutions, to pilot Slovene best practice tool for PFP as optional approach for implementation of the sustainable and high quality PFP procedures and to recommend further institutionalised implementation of the public procurement procedure for foods, based on quality standards, in the Member States and propose minimum criteria for sustainable public procurement, in line with the developments at the European Commission level. Oxford University Press 2023-10-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10597016/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckad160.436 Text en © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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