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The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has con­firmed that no stu­dents were af­fect­ed fol­low­ing an iso­lat­ed food-safe­ty breach in­volv­ing a batch of roti in­tend­ed for the na­tion­al School Nu­tri­tion Pro­gramme.

In a state­ment yes­ter­day, the min­istry said the Na­tion­al Schools Di­etary Ser­vices Lim­it­ed (NS­D­SL)—the com­pa­ny re­spon­si­ble for man­ag­ing the coun­try’s school-feed­ing op­er­a­tions—de­tect­ed the com­pro­mised batch dur­ing rou­tine pre-pro­duc­tion checks.

Ac­cord­ing to the min­istry, the roti, sup­plied by one of NS­D­SL’s ap­proved man­u­fac­tur­ers, was im­me­di­ate­ly quar­an­tined and re­moved from cir­cu­la­tion, pre­vent­ing it from en­ter­ing any school or reach­ing stu­dents.