❖ Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has recently revised IS 6541: 2024, a code that recommends hygienic conditions required for the preparation of food/meals in schools.

❖ BIS would soon approach the State government to discuss the revised code and seek coordination on implementation of the standard in Tamil Nadu.

❖ The code was published in 1972 to prescribe a basic standard for maintaining hygienic conditions in kitchens and food transport vehicles and covered only noon meal programmes then.

❖ The new code has covered the broad contours of food safety and hygiene measures to be adopted in various levels of schools, including creches.

❖ It has excluded facilities for infants up to 22 months for now.