It’s still not clear if the recent school scandal involving spoiled cafeteria food was real or exaggerated, but either way, changes are afoot.

A new set of rules will require pre-higher education schools, including kindergartens, to set up a “companion mechanism” in which school leaders must dine with students and keep records of the meals. The rules also allow parents to dine with their children and offer feedback to schools.

China issued a 64-article rule last month — before the scandal — putting responsibility on the head of an education institution for food quality, including from outsourcing suppliers. It’s unclear if the dine-with-student rule was in place before the scandal, as the new guidelines were only publicly released yesterday.

In that scandal, a private school in Chengdu last week was found to be providing food that failed to meet safety standards. Photos of spoiled food circulated online and parents were infuriated. Hundreds of students from the school were sent to local hospitals for check-ups, and three were hospitalized. The school’s principal was even fired.

But days later, authorities alleged that the photos were faked, after their investigation found that only one out the 18 samples collected from the Chengdu No. 7 Experimental High School’s canteen did not meet safety standards.

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