November 17, 2009 – USA Today’s November 17 article, “Schools in the dark about tainted lunches” reports on failures in the federal government’s system to notify schools about potentially tainted foods supplied to school meals programs. The article is the first part in a series of stories on school lunches. Through stringent food safety standards on professional training and food preparation procedures, as well as federal advocacy, the School Nutrition Association and its members are focused on protecting the health of America’s school children.
Please visit the link below for talking points on how school nutrition programs maintain superior food safety records, and how SNA has called on the federal government to improve its procedures to provide timely and accurate notifications to schools when they identify a food safety threat.
Talking Points on Food Safety in the School Nutrition Programs