a food poisoning warning was issued after several Christchurch school children ate school lunches covered in thick mould<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"The]()
The meals were covered in “furry stuff”.<\/p>\n
Seymour, the Associate Education Minister and the driving force behind the lunches scheme, claimed it was not clear if it was a mix-up by the school or with the food group that supplied the lunches, Compass.<\/p>\n
\u201cI need to be clear that there has been no illness. You know, there\u2019s been reporting by this principal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The meals, provided as part of the Government\u2019s school lunch programme, were eaten by some students yesterday before a teacher intervened.<\/p>\n
Burrows said the school was in \u201cno way responsible for the situation\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe food is delivered to us daily, and leftovers are removed each day.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said as soon as teachers realised the food was \u201cmouldy and furry\u201d, they leapt into action.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the teachers decided that they would have lunch because, of course, we are encouraged to eat the lunches as well,\u201d Burrows said.<\/p>\n
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The lunches served at Haeata Community Campus were covered in a thick layer of mould.<\/p>\n
Compass Group NZ and Gilmours form a partnership to supply meals under the School Lunch Collective.<\/p>\n
Burrows said the Compass Group was the provider of the contaminated lunches, but of the two batches provided to the school, only one appeared to have mould.<\/p>\n
Helen Hurst, haut\u016b (leader) operations and integration, Ministry of Education, said they were investigating the incident.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have been in touch with the school.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are no reports of student illness. We have advised the school to monitor students, and any illness is to be reported to Te Whatu Ora.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are working with MPI on this investigation. No other school has reported any issues with today\u2019s lunches.\u201d<\/p>\n
A School Lunch Collective spokesperson said they were working with the school and MPI to better understand what had happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe take pride in our food quality and know this is something that cannot be compromised.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur kitchens are verified and audited regularly by an independent MPI-verified provider, and we follow the Food Act, Food Control Plans and related regulations.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese measures have been in place since the beginning of the programme.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although Compass did not secure the contract to provide school lunches to primary schools<\/a>, they would still be providing lunches to intermediate and secondary schools next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI also note that this particular principal is a frequent flyer in the media, complaining about quite a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1975,1558,1550,4487,1656,35686,124,6284,99524,3039,33092,38638,62381,107010,564,23855,99456,209,305,1899,6922,85555,1073,6722,48459,111,43,139,69,415,29192,2687,4062,6649,45341,16797,1361,102],"class_list":["post-163061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-at","tag-been","tag-centre","tag-christchurch","tag-company","tag-compass","tag-could","tag-david","tag-defended","tag-defends","tag-deputy","tag-easily","tag-fault","tag-flyer","tag-food","tag-frequent","tag-furry","tag-group","tag-have","tag-kids","tag-labels","tag-lunches","tag-media","tag-minister","tag-mouldy","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-prime","tag-principal","tag-saying","tag-school","tag-schools","tag-served","tag-seymour","tag-that","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}