Monitoring the quality of the cooking oil and raw foods used in canteens in Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology to achieve health stalls

Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS) has 4 canteens that are managed by the ITS Public Facilities Unit to fulfill the food and drink needs of students, lecturers, and other employees. There are Biology canteen, Information System canteen, Geomatics Engineering canteen, and Central canteen that have many foods and beverages stalls. To ensure the quality of food in the canteen, the quality of the foods’ raw materials will be tested. Some parameters tested are free fatty acid value analysis (FFA), peroxide value analysis (PY), and formaldehyde qualitative test. The analysis results are compared with the national standards (SNI 01-3741-2013). From 28 stalls that were sampled, only 9 stalls passed the test. Later, the stalls that passed the test has been labeled Healty Food Stalls Built By LPPM ITS (Warung Sehat Binaan LPPM ITS) in the form of stickers and those who have not passed will be given training in how to process healthy food and retest after training.