{"id":13738,"date":"2025-05-27T05:56:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T17:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13738"},"modified":"2025-05-27T05:56:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T17:56:44","slug":"dead-insect-larva-found-in-government-funded-school-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13738","title":{"rendered":"Dead insect larva found in government funded school lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Food safety officials are investigating the discovery of a dead larva found in a government funded school lunch in Auckland.<\/p>\n<p>Food Safety deputy director-general Vincent Arbuckle says it was found in a meal at Kelston Boys&#8217; High School on 12 May.<\/p>\n<p>He said the larva has been sent away for testing and the results were expected back next week.<\/p>\n<p>The tests should confirm what type of insect it is and help determine how it might have got into the food.<\/p>\n<p>He said although officials were looking into the complaint, at this stage there was no evidence there was a wider problem with the School Lunch Collective which provides the meals.<\/p>\n<p>The Collective has been approached for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The lunch scheme was plagued by problems in term one, with criticism of late, inedible, repetitive or nutritionally lacking lunches, and even a case of a lunch containing melted plastic.<\/p>\n<p>The Auditor-General&#8217;s office has announced plans for an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/political\/560093\/school-lunches-probe-launched-by-auditor-general\">inquiry into the programme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food safety officials are investigating the discovery of a dead larva found in a government funded school lunch in Auckland. Food Safety deputy director-general Vincent Arbuckle says it was found in a meal at Kelston Boys&#8217; High School on 12 May. He said the larva has been sent away for testing and the results were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13738","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\/13738","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=13738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13740,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13738\/revisions\/13740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}