Xinshe High School agrees with food suppliers to let students eat pesticide-free ingredients

Can a school nutrition lunch costing about 35 yuan per meal include non-GMO soy products and organic vegetables? Xinshe High School in Taichung has made it happen. Teacher Hsu En-chin, who took over as lunch secretary three years ago, first required food suppliers to maintain basic quality, then increased the requirements year by year. GAP (Good Agricultural Practice) vegetables, organic vegetables, and non-GMO soy products were successively written into the contract, letting students eat healthily.

Regulatory and cost constraints make it hard to use pesticide-free ingredients in nutrition lunches

(This article was funded by the Chien-Chen Environmental Education Foundation, which sponsored personnel expenses but did not interfere at all with news topic selection or interview writing, ensuring journalistic independence.)