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to: Steve Asher
from: Mike Powell
date: 2005-07-20 12:29:00
subject: UK: Monitoring Food Choic

>One in five English secondary schools makes use of basic smart card
>systems for meal payment. This takes cash out of schools and reduces
>queuing times. The cafeteria at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School
>routinely serves around 1000 diners aged 7-16 and their system was
>upgraded for the study. For over a year, a full electronic audit was
>made of every transaction that took place and each food chosen was
>converted to its nutrient composition.

With the younger kids, in particular, there is no proof that they actually
ate what they bought.

Mike
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