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Porvoo Food services is the food service provider with the most increased use of organic products in the public sector. Organic ingredients accounted for 16% of all foods used and the share rose by a staggering 15% compared to the previous year. Winners of the Luomu SM competition will be announced on the Organic Food Day on 8 October 2024.

Luomu SM is a competition for all professional kitchens using organic foods. The competition is intended for both public and private food service providers and restaurants to find the operator which has best succeeded in increasing the use of organic foods compared to the previous reference period. The competition has three series for both the private and public sectors. Which series a restaurant or a food service operator competes in depends on the number of meals it serves over the course of the year. The Luomu SM competition for professional kitchens has been organised annually since 2014. Porvoo Food services has two stars in the Steps to Organic programme and we are on the step 4. The Steps to Organic is a programme aiming to help professional kitchens to increase their use of organic products as a part of sustainable development actions. The programme includes six steps and at best one may have three stars. There are more than 2,200 different public and private food service providers and restaurants participating in the programme.

One of the goals of the Porvoo City Strategy is to be a city of climate actions. Organic food is one part of it. We regularly use organic milk and organic flake, to some extent organic yogurt, and organic cultured buttermilk, as well as some individual ingredients like tofu. We are about to replace the peas in our pea soup with organic peas. In some years we have bought organic apples and organic meat from local producers. The acquisition of organic products is affected by availability, security of supply, quality, and price.

The EU aid to Member States for school milk is a part of a school distribution scheme aimed at promoting healthy eating habits. In Finland, schools and day care centres may be allocated the aid for school milk to support milk and cultured butter milk consumption. The amount of the aid for organic milk is higher than for conventional milk. The aid for organic milk is 0.32 euros/litre.

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Porvoo Food and Cleaning Services were selected as the winners of the award Cleaning Industry Organization of 2024.

Puhtaustieto, puhtaus.fi, selects an exemplary company or an entity representing the cleaning industry each year, which though its operations continuously

• increases the know-how of their entire staff
• works with professionalism and puts the people first
• consistently develops the organization’s activities

Puhtaustieto organizes trainings, seminars and Taito days and publishes specialty magazines in the fields of cleanliness and caretaking. The prize was awarded at the two-day development forum for the Cleaning and Caretaking sector in Helsinki. Each year, the Development Forum provides up-to-date research information, visions of the future and key information presented by various experts. This year’s topics included circular economy, various digital solutions and robotics, and well-being at work.

The grounds for awarding the price:

 Porvoo Food and Cleaning Services have identified that the quality of the cleaning services are a result of constant development and professional competence.

“Porvoo Food and Cleaning Services have actively invested in the long-term development of their own operations and personnel’s expertise and well-being, which has directly affected customer satisfaction”

At the beginning of the year, employees at the Food and Cleaning Services in schools and kindergartens were granted a meal benefit which, in return for a nominal fee, ensures a warm meal during the working day and an important break.

The Food and Cleaning Services employ 180 people, of which 99 people work in cleaning services: 4 team managers, 3 service advisers, 6 industrial cleaners, 75 custodians, 14 service managers, 10 of whom are in combination work and 4 of whom rotate.

• It was a pleasure bringing the trophy to Porvoo, says Service Manager Marianne Seppänen and Development Manager Christina Komu.

The award for Workplace of the Year 2023 was presented during the main event of the Workplace Well-being Week, 26.10.2023. The Food and Cleaning Services unit at Metsätähti has genuinely recognized the possibilities of diversity, which in turn is reflected in the high quality of the operative work. The cooperation in the workplace is easy and smooth, and the working environment is encouraging.