While we're on the topic of food safety, there is an ongoing series in USA Today, looking at the standards in place (or not) in our school lunch systems. Food injury attorney and blogger Bill Marler offers valuable commentary, asking the question: Who does the USDA work for ... the public or the industry it oversees?
The USA Today team is reporting on some alarming facts and figures, such as:
"The USDA helps egg producers by buying 'spent hen' meat from hens past their egg-laying prime and passing it on to the school lunch program. The chicken is so unappealing that Campbell Soup stopped using it more than a decade ago."
And then there's this:
"The USDA buys meat for the school lunch program from the lowest bidder among those certified to meet USDA standards. But at least one certified bidder - Beef Packers Inc. of Fresno - has recalled tainted meat twice this year and earlier was suspended from the school lunch program three times."
Food for thought.
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