{"id":12976,"date":"2025-03-11T04:58:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T15:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12976"},"modified":"2025-03-11T04:58:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T15:58:52","slug":"school-lunch-failures-provider-told-to-show-daily-visual-evidence-of-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12976","title":{"rendered":"School lunch failures: Provider told to show daily visual evidence of quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A menu of mishaps means the government&#8217;s school lunch provider is now facing new performance measures &#8211; including providing daily evidence of what it is serving up.<\/p>\n<p>Food Safety New Zealand is investigating the revamped lunch programme after a Gisborne student\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/544097\/school-lunch-that-burnt-student-wrongly-reheated-ministry-of-education\">received second-degree burns from a Wattie&#8217;s cottage pie meal that splashed on his leg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The agency has ordered the School Lunch Collective, run by international company Compass Group, to immediately stop serving the pre-made meals.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple schools have described issues with burning hot plastic packaged meals &#8211; including one school using rubber gardening gloves to handle them &#8211; with more than one report of plastic in the food.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A menu of mishaps means the government&#8217;s school lunch provider is now facing new performance measures &#8211; including providing daily evidence of what it is serving up. Food Safety New Zealand is investigating the revamped lunch programme after a Gisborne student\u00a0received second-degree burns from a Wattie&#8217;s cottage pie meal that splashed on his leg. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12978,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12976\/revisions\/12978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}