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Investigation finds school’s mix-up likely cause of mouldy lunches

Mix-up by Haeata Community Campus likely cause of mouldy lunches

New Zealand Food Safety has found no ongoing food safety risk with the government’s school lunch provider after an investigation into mouldy meals at Haeata Community Campus, concluding it was most likely that leftover lunches from the previous week were inadvertently served due to untracked Cambro containers kept onsite.

Cambro containers are commercial-grade food storage and transport containers commonly used in catering, hospitality, and institutional meal services.

While the school disputes keeping such containers, investigators ruled out delivery errors by the School Lunch Collective and noted other schools reported no issues with the same meals.

The agency has issued eight recommendations, including improved traceability, clearer responsibilities, and better management of leftovers, to prevent a repeat of the incident.

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3 COMMENTS

  1. Standards are dropping everywhere
    Now it transpires down to and including school lunches
    We couldn’t get the basic fundamentals of organizing school lunches right
    It all starts at the the top with proportional representation
    That lets turds float in under the net
    Which is what it was designed to do
    And why everybody was brain washed of its virtues and why it was to be embraced
    Cause and result confusion and instability
    And to undermine white western culture using proxies
    Diametrically opposed to each other at opposite ends of the spectrum
    In Our headlong thrust with to embrace and meet Our predetermined appointment with communism
    Which is the road to death misery and destruction

  2. And no mention of the hard evidence to the contrary, the principal has offered? No clear evidence countering her position? What a surprise. This govt needs to go come 2026 and its agencies overhauled.

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