The Las Vegas Sun ran an editorial on Tuesday entitled,"A serving of food safety: Congress should make sure children are protected from food-borne illnesses" that highlighted Chairman George Miller's letter to the GAO asking for an investigation into contaminated beef in school meals.
The Sun said:
The Sun said, "Miller is correct to call for a full investigation, and he should press the issue," and that is exactly what he plans to do.
The Sun said:
A recent report to Congress found that the Agriculture Department’s Food and Nutrition Service, which provides up to 20 percent of the food served in the nation’s schools, doesn’t always provide the schools with timely recall notices. That increases the risk of contaminated food making its way onto children’s plates.In response to that finding and other news stories, Chairman Miller wrote, “Recent media reports have drawn our attention yet again to significant recalls of contaminated ground beef that was available in the commercial marketplace. Although there are no reports of schools being implicated in any of the food safety illnesses related to this latest wave of recalls, I am concerned that the systems in place do not adequately minimize schools’ risk for procuring and providing contaminated products purchased through commercial channels for use in the school meal programs.”
The Sun said, "Miller is correct to call for a full investigation, and he should press the issue," and that is exactly what he plans to do.
