CALIFORNIA: Officials call for safety probe of school meat supply - (Los Angeles Times)
February 15, 2008 – 4:38 pmA California congressman and other lawmakers were cited as callling Thursday for an independent investigation into the safety of food supplied to schools across the nation through a federal program in response to allegations that at-risk cattle were slaughtered at one of the school nutrition program’s top suppliers.
In a letter to the Government Accountability Office, California Rep. George Miller (D-Martinez) and three other Democratic lawmakers were cited as saying a video released by the Humane Society of the United States raised “urgent concerns” about the safety of food supplied to schools through the Agriculture Department.
Steps taken by the department after the video’s release “leave unanswered a larger question about the overall effectiveness of the federal government’s effort to ensure the safety of meat in the school food supply,” lawmakers wrote in the letter.
Miller, chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, said the department has repeatedly failed to deliver […]
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