Brief introduction of nutrition catering company

China's Ministry of Labor and Social Security has set up a new professional assessment-nutrition catering staff, which has aroused great concern in society. In recent years, diseases caused by malnutrition are decreasing in many areas of China, but various "civilized diseases" such as hypertension, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and diabetes are increasing year by year. This puts forward a new task for people who have solved the problem of food and clothing and become rich-to establish scientific eating habits. It is in this situation that the nutrition caterer came into being. Yu Ruomu, honorary president of China Nutrition Society and a famous nutrition expert, commented on this initiative, saying that this new occupation will contribute to improving the health quality of the Chinese nation, reducing civilized diseases, eliminating malnutrition diseases and promoting the health project in the 2 1 century. According to the statistics of China Cuisine Association, there are about 400,000 restaurants, canteens, fast food and catering enterprises with registered chefs120,000. However, less than 10,000 people know professional nutrition knowledge. It is estimated that the demand gap of professional nutrition talents in China will reach 4 million.

The professional qualifications of nutrition professionals in China are divided into two sequences:

First, nutritionists working in the nutrition room of the medical system. These talents are undergraduates and master students who graduated from clinical nutrition major in colleges and universities, and obtained the national recognized medical titles through the examinations organized by the Ministry of Health. There is no separate series title of dietitian in China. Most of these talents work in hospitals, public health and scientific research units, cooperate with doctors to treat patients' diseases, and study or practice to meet the nutritional catering needs of special people;

Two, the Ministry of labor and social security launched a new national occupation-nutrition catering, mainly for the majority of healthy people, engaged in the catering industry. There are only 3000-4000 people with professional qualifications. Hou, director of the Skills Training and Development Division of the Education and Training Center of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, said: "In Germany, the Netherlands and other European countries, there are health commissioners who are responsible for the nutrition of healthy people.

Training "nutrition caterers" is a short-term and quick measure to solve China's urgent demand for talents in this field. As long as you pass the training and the vocational qualification examination organized by the state, you can get the' National Vocational Qualification Certificate' in a short time. This is essentially different from the general nutrition class training in society, and the name is unified as' Nutrition Caterer'.