In order to inspect the safety of food and drinks on behalf of National Chung Cheng University’s almost 10,000 students and staff, Su Fen-yu, a nutritionist on the university’s public services committee, tours the campus with her bicycle on a daily round of inspections of food and drink outlets in over ten locations. Su checks that the ingredients used comply with regulations and during the recent food safety crises, Su took preventative measures to remove and replace many products that were under suspicion. Su ensures students and staff can have peace of mind over the food and drinks they consume on campus, making her the “omnipresent” nutritionalist.
Su’s attentiveness and persistence has ensured that the university has been able to avert disaster on many occasions when a food safety incident has come to light. For example, after the plasticizer scandal, Su asked businesses to change to using glass bottles, and when there were multiple scandals over contaminated oil, even though the brands of oil used by shops on campus had not yet been singled out, Su decided on the spot to urge shop owners to lead the way in removing these brands of oil from their products. Right away, Su also persuaded businesses to use homemade pork fat. As predicted, before long the Ministry of Education had issued a notice for the removal of oil products.
On campus at National Chung Cheng University, 90 percent of businesses are to this day still using own-produced pork fat to make their products. Su’s seemingly super-human foresight has earned her the nickname, “Sorceress Su.”
Photo: Yu Hsueh-lan, Liberty Times
照片:自由時報記者余雪蘭
(LIBERTY TIMES, TRANSLATED BY EDWARD JONES)
中正大學民生服務委員會營養師蘇芬玉為全校近萬人的飲食衛生安全把關,每天騎腳踏車巡視校園裡十多處的餐飲店家,檢查食材是否符合規定;食安危機期間,更主動預防性撤換及下架各項疑慮產品,讓師生「食」在安心,堪稱全方位營養師。
蘇芬玉的細心與堅持,讓學校多次從食安事件中化險為夷;像是塑化劑事件後,她要求業者改用玻璃瓶;油安連環爆時,儘管校內店家使用油品尚未被點名,但她當機立斷,促請先行下架,並說服業者在第一時間就使用自炸豬油,果然教育部不久就通知撤油。
校內九成業者迄今仍使用自製豬油,這次的神機妙算讓她贏得「仙姑」稱號。
(自由時報記者余雪蘭)
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