SAFETY experts have gone back to the classroom to help more than 90 students understand the rights and wrongs of food hygiene..

So far young people studying food technology at two secondary schools – in Northallerton and Easingwold – have received lessons from environmental health officers.

The officers from Hambleton and Richmondshire District Councils worked with pupils interested in taking a food hygiene qualification.

They gave them a video tour of an anonymous food business; and showed them specimens of cockroaches and photographs of dirty food premises.

“The students asked many interesting and probing questions,” said environmental health manager Philip Mepham.

“Many of them are already working in local food businesses and will be able to put what they have learned into practice.”

Any secondary school in Hambleton and Richmondshire interested in a visit from the environmental health team should contact Maria Bentley on 01609-767085.