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BUSINESS WEEK
The Associated Press
February 1, 2008, 5:45PM ET
Schools, burger chains ban targeted beef
By ROBERT JABLON
LOS ANGELES
The hamburger chains Jack-In-the-Box and In-N-Out as well more than 150 school districts around the nation have banned meat from a Chino slaughterhouse after a video showed workers brutalizing sick and crippled cows, officials said Friday.
The New York City public school system — the nation’s largest with 1.1 million students — pulled all hamburgers from its menus.
School districts in at least 11 states have stopped using ground beef from Hallmark Meat Packing Co. and its associated Westland Meat Co. until a federal investigation is complete.
Inspectors were at the packing plant on Friday, USDA spokeswoman Angela Harless said.