LCQ18: Salt Reduction Scheme for School Lunches

Following is a question by the Hon Chan Hoi-yan and a written reply by the Secretary for Health, Professor Lo Chung-mau, in the Legislative Council today (October 28): Question: Since the 2017-2018 school year, the Department of Health (DH) has implemented the Salt Reduction Scheme for School Lunches, under which lunch suppliers voluntarily provide DH with information such as the number of sodium-reduced meal choices. However, it is learnt that some lunch suppliers have not submitted such information for several consecutive months. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council: (1) of the current number of lunch suppliers participating in the Scheme, the number of primary schools across the territory to which they provide lunches, and the respective percentages of such schools in the total number of primary schools in the territory; the total number of orders of sodium-reduced meal choices provided by lunch suppliers, the number of students who ordered these meal choices and their respective proportions in the total number of meal orders and the total number of students, in each of the past three school years; (2) of the five lunch suppliers that pledged the highest p

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