Contaminated Frozen School Lunches Part Of Ongoing Meat Recalls

Frozen meals served to students across the United States as part of federally-funded school breakfast and lunch programs may be contaminated with listeria and have been recalled.

The recall applies to 92-thousand pounds of prepackaged breakfast burritos and wraps, manufactured by the California company M.C.I. Foods between Sept. 17 and Oct. 14.

The announcement cited seven different types of frozen breakfast products that could be tainted.

They are distributed to low-income students around the country as part of the National School Breakfast and Lunch Programs, which the Department of Agriculture administers.

There are no confirmed reports of illnesses tied to the recalled products.

Multiple listeria outbreaks have been reported just this month.

One impacted meal kits from the food subscription service HelloFresh, and another forced the recall of nearly 245-thousand pounds of precooked pasta from the California company Nate’s Fine Foods, which turned deadly and potentially contaminated dozens of different products sold in grocery stores nationwide.