{"id":15900,"date":"2025-12-03T06:02:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15900"},"modified":"2025-12-03T06:02:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:02:23","slug":"principal-says-food-safety-officers-saw-video-proof-mouldy-meals-werent-last-weeks-leftovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15900","title":{"rendered":"Principal says Food Safety officers saw video proof mouldy meals weren’t last week’s leftovers"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Christchurch principal says Food Safety officers saw video proof that mouldy meals served to students weren’t left at her school from the previous week.<\/p>\n

Students at Haeata Community Campus were served mouldy mince meals through the government-funded school lunch programme, which some of them ate before realising they were off.<\/p>\n

NZ Food Safety has said it was more than likely that some lunches provided by Compass Group last Thursday remained at the school and were not refrigerated.<\/p>\n

It said school staff then accidently\u00a0re-served the food alongside fresh meals<\/a>\u00a0on Monday.<\/p>\n

But Principal Peggy Burrows said investigators watched security camera footage showing that all of the containers holding the hot meals delivered last Thursday were taken away by Compass.<\/p>\n

She said the school had no facility to heat lunches, and would not serve cold meals.<\/p>\n

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A Christchurch principal says Food Safety officers saw video proof that mouldy meals served to students weren’t left at her school from the previous week. Students at Haeata Community Campus were served mouldy mince meals through the government-funded school lunch programme, which some of them ate before realising they were off. NZ Food Safety has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15900","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\/15900","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=15900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15902,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15900\/revisions\/15902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}