In a TV Pink interview, BSN’s Ratko Bojović discussed the Strength2Food Project and its aim of improving school meals in Serbia. The interview began by looking at the food poisoning outbreak in several Belgrade schools before shifting to Strength2Food and how it aims to improve meals in Serbia’s primary schools. Ratko described how the teams in Serbia aim not only to improve the current school menus, but also to help schools modify criteria for food procurement to improve food quality and focus on locally-grown food. He reported that around 30% of food items in one of Novi Sad’s primary schools was found to be imported and announced that Strength2Food’s partner BARILLA, with expertise in meal nutritional quality, will be visiting several primary schools in Serbia later this month. They will meet cooks and see their kitchen facilities as a prerequisite to develop new menus that will take account of Serbia’s traditional eating habits and children’s preferences. To support these activities, the project is preparing educational resources in Serbian on a new website for different stakeholder groups – schoolteachers, cooks, children and their parents.

The news item is available (in Serbian) at http://euta.info/EUTA.mp4