MPI investigating school lunch complaint:
The Ministry of Primary Industries is investigating a complaint about the school lunch programme.
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MPI investigates mislabelled school mealsThe provider recalled affected meals and introduced additional checks to reduce future dispatch errors.
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- The Ministry of Primary Industries is investigating a complaint about incorrectly labelled special-diet meals at some Christchurch schools.
- School Lunch Collective recalled the meals before students received them; MPI confirmed that no students ate them.
- On February 12, Hillmorton High School set aside such meals; delayed checking meant students missed lunch.
- At a Whangārei school, burnt spaghetti meals arrived with peeling packaging seals; MPI found no safety risk, and pizzas were ordered.
There were about seven of us trying to dish out these meals, and as we were doing it we could see 'oh my gosh it's burnt, and it's unsealed.' It's pretty shocking.— Hayley Read, principal of Whangārei Intermediate, describing the burnt meals incident
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