Schools Scramble To Find Questionable Meat–Los Angeles Times headline
One could argue that it would be better to find good meat.
Many districts have stopped serving ground beef products in response to allegations that a packing house used ‘downer’ cattle.
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By Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
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February 3, 2008
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Leave no patty unturned, no meatball overlooked.
That was the mandate late last week as school district officials across the Southland tried to identify all meat that had come from a Chino-based slaughterhouse accused of distributing ground beef from at-risk cattle.
This is not the first recall to affect California schools — tainted strawberries and spinach have also caused scares in recent years. But potentially problematic ground beef is much harder to identify and eliminate because it goes through multiple processors before reaching the schools, and meat from different suppliers may be mixed up in the process, officials say.
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