Report on the State of Human Rights in Institutions for Persons with Disabilities provide the consumer with safe food which meets the consumer’s physiological requirements for food and energy and, at the same time, take into account the consumer’s individual requirements.”159 When assessing the food menus of infant houses, we noticed the lack of fruits; In June, children were given 150-200 grams of apple – for five days only, and in the Tbilisi Infant House – for three days only. The doctor, accountant, administrator, and director of the institutions draw up the menus jointly. The distribution of food rations is supervised, though it is not documented whether a child really received the norm of albumens, fats, and carbohydrates established according to his/her age. The latter makes it practically impossible to monitor whether infants receive a sufficient amount of food. The Alimentary Units of Infant Houses The repeated monitoring in the infant houses has made it clear that these institutions only fulfilled those recommendations on the sanitary rules and norms of the organization of nutrition that were relatively easy to implement.160 The boards and knives were marked in the institutions, and garbage was collected in a foot-pedal garbage bin. However, the institutions still failed to keep a log on checking the hygienic condition of the staff employed in the kitchens. At the time of the monitoring, the institutions did not keep a log on the assessment and control of cooked food (the Tbilisi Infant House), because, as the administration explained, “there is no such demand from the Agency.” The physical environment and equipment in the kitchens of the infant houses have not changed. In the Tbilisi Infant House, as at the time of the previous monitoring, the staff is still preparing to renovate the food preparation sections of the kitchen, because the infrastructure is in need of repairs. The alimentary unit of the Makhinjauri Infant House is also in need of repairs. Public Defender of Georgia addresses the Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia with recommendations to: Ensure the organization of child nutrition with adequate quality; Ensure the provision of food with adequate nutritional value according to the norms determined by children’s age needs for the beneficiaries of infant houses. The menus of the Akhaltsikhe Boarding School were not diverse, with surplus nutrition with carbohydrates; The beneficiaries consumed vermicelli or macaroni soup with 600 grams of bread on a daily basis. The menu in the Chiatura Boarding School is incomplete and does not contain fruits; One beneficiary consumes 500 grams of bread on a daily basis. The same trend is observed in Kutaisi. Food is not checked organoleptically (with outward signs) in any of the boarding schools, or only dinner is checked (Kutaisi). 159 The Standards of Child Care. 160 The recommendations contained in the 2010 report of the National Preventive Mechanism were developed in accordance with the norms established by the November 12, 2003 Order No. 280/Nof the Minister of Labor, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia on Approval of the Sanitary Rules and Norms of Organization of Nutrition in Children’s Pre-school Institutions. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PUBLIC DEFENDER OF GEORGIA NPM Report 2012 ORGANIZATION OF NUTRITION IN BOARDING SCHOOLS