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Specialist Dispatch Project in Kuantan, Malaysia

Under CLAIR’s Specialist Dispatch Project scheme, a training on health and sanitation was conducted to restaurant owners in Kuantan, which is situated in the state of Pahang in Malaysia for about 2 weeks from 11^th to 24^th January 2010. The training was conducted by Mr. Usui Chikara, a specialist from Kagoshima Prefecture in Japan.

　During the dispatch, the specialist and officials from Kuantan Municipal Council have conducted on-site inspection on restaurants that were randomly selected, whereby the specialist has conducted activities such as checking the current local conditions of sanitation management, gathering test samples for the quantitative analysis of coliform bacterium and interviewing local restaurant owners. In addition, the specialist also inspected the sanitation conditions in local restaurants and provided the relevant advice to restaurant owners on sanitation management.

　Apart from the above activities, a health and sanitation seminar targeted at staff from Kuantan Municipal Council, restaurant owners and food handlers was also conducted. There were a total of 123 participants for the seminar, whereby 75 were staff from Kuantan Municipal Council, and the remaining 48 were restaurant owners and food handlers. In the seminar, participants were given an opportunity to practice the hygienic methods of hand washing, and they were also able to learn about the importance of sanitation management through group work activities such as the‘risk communication game’

　　

                          　　  Mr. Usui taking test samples from restaurants

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