From the Harford County Health Department:
Regarding the recent recall of a product that has been distributed to and served in Harford County Public Schools without incident thus far, we are issuing the following statement.
“The Harford County Health Department is maintaining regular contact with the MD Dept. of Health & Mental Hygiene as well as with the Harford County Public School system as we are continue to carefully monitor this situation. Of the 24 cases reported nationwide thus far, there are no reported cases in Harford County, nor in Maryland. Therefore, outside of continued surveillance, no additional public health response is warranted at this time.”
From Harford County Public Schools:
Food Recall Alert Message 4-4-13:(The following call was sent to the parents of the school listed in the message below this evening.)
This is Harford County Public Schools Communications Manager Teri Kranefeld with an important message regarding a food product recall intended for parents of children who attend the following schools: Aberdeen Middle, Bakerfield Elementary, Bel Air Elementary, Bel Air High School, Edgewood High School, Forest Hill Elementary, Forest Lakes Elementary, Fountain Green Elementary, Havre de Grace Elementary, Homestead/Wakefield Elementary, Lisby Hillsdale Elementary, Meadowvale Elementary, Prospect Mill Elementary, Ring Factory Elementary, and William S. James Elementary.
We are reaching out to you make you aware that our Food and Nutrition Office was notified late yesterday evening that pepperoni pizzatas, a food item served in the cafeterias of the schools mentioned, has been voluntarily recalled by the product manufacturer for potential e-coli contamination. All products by the manufacturer were immediately removed. According to the Center for Disease Control, there have been no reported cases of illness in Maryland. However, if your child consumed pepperoni pizzatas yesterday, Wednesday, April 3 and is experiencing diarrhea, please notify your health care provider. Symptoms typically develop within 24 – 72 hours following consumption. We will continue to work with the Harford County Health Department and we will send any additional information they deem appropriate home with your child tomorrow. Thank you for your time and attention.
Pepperoni pizza, what a healthy lunch for the growing body!
And it only took 24 hours to notify us by robocall. Technology is wonderful in the hands of real professionals.
Oh, you just don’t know what insanity goes on behind the scenes of Harford County Public Schools.
It’s not just the school system, I received a call from Wegman’s recalling Farm Rich Mozzarella Sticks and their pizza slices.
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/04/05/farm-rich-expands-recall-on-snack-products-over-e-coli-concerns/
I don’t think we can slam HCPS for this. They were notified and took relatively immediate steps.
Alex…… Agreed, that is why I was letting people know that it wasn’t just the school system, things were recalled in a grocery store that I buy every week.
Items are recalled everyday. Unfortunately this time it appears as if some schools served the product before it was actually recalled. How can we blame anyone other than the manufacturer for this? If HCPS had not been honest in telling parents then i would have plenty of concern. My grandkids go to Prospect Mill and we were notified appropriately. Now I hear that our school really never had the kids eat it last Wednesday as originally reported. Again better safe than sorry. Thanks again for handling it so well.
Because…stop your ranting….HCPS needs to commended on the excellent job keeping parents notified. Finally I can say something they have done has pleased me. Lets just say, I am the first one in the neighborhood to complain. Say what you want they are winners handling a terrible potential problem that they were faced with. Glad they let me know of their concerns. Congrats on the fine job.
Certainly sounds like they deserve an “A” for this one so far. Thanks for keeping our kids safe.
Ok I admit I just had to google what a pepperoni pizzatas was and here it is…..
http://richsfoodservice.com/products/ampm-snacks/appetizers/handheld-snacks-and-meals/pepperoni-pizzatas/65282
Ingredient Statement: Low Moisture Part-Skim Mozzarella Cheese (Pasteurized Part-Skim Milk, Culture, Salt, Enzymes), Enriched Wheat Flour (Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Tomato Sauce (Water, Tomato Paste, Crushed Tomatoes, Sugar, Dehydrated Garlic, Methylcellulose Gum, Salt, Soybean Oil, Xanthan Gum, Spices And Ascorbic Acid [Vitamin C]), Water, Pepperoni (Pork, Beef, Salt, Water, Paprika, Dextrose, Natural Spices, Smoke Flavoring, Lactic Acid Starter Culture, Sodium Ascorbate [Vitamin C], Flavoring, Garlic Powder, Sodium Nitrite, Bha, Bht, And Citric Acid), Dry Dough Mix (Sugar, Degermed Yellow Corn Meal, Salt, Leavening [Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Baking Soda], Enriched Wheat Flour [Flour, Niacin, Iron As Ferrous Sulfate, Thiamine Mononitrate, Enzyme, Riboflavin, Folic Acid], Maltodextrin, Natural Flavor, Lactic Acid, Yeast Extract), Soybean Oil, Contains 2% Or Less Of Each Of The Following: Cheese Flavor (Maltodextrin, Whey, Romano Cheese [Made From Pasteurized Cow’S Milk, Starter Culture, Salt, Enzymes], Cream, Salt, Flavor), Pizza Type Flavor (Soybean Oil, Triglycerides, Spice Extractives), Butter Flavor (Nonfat Milk, Butter [Cream, Salt], Butter Extracts), Yeast, Cellulose Gums (Carboxymethylcellulose, Methylcellulose), Soy Lecithin, Xanthan Gum, Salt, And L-Cysteine. Contains Milk, Wheat, Soy.
Anyone who is actually feeding this chemistry experiment of a meal to their children deserves a good case of e coli and should be embarrassed. There are less harmful stuff in a 6 month round of chemo and radiation therapy…..
You are chemically illiterate.
Try googling some of the ingredients before you jump to make broad statements regarding parents and who deserves a ‘good case of e coli’.
Despite the pepperoni preservatives and a few thickening gums there’s nothing there to be alarmed about.
and I’ll add that even a single dose of chemo involves drugs that make the bha and bht look like vitamins.
Go eat some granola and shut up.
Poor Mr. Fix-it has no idea what lurks in his…
Natural spices
Smoke flavoring
Enzymes
Spice Extractives
But my favs are…
“Flavoring”
“Pizza Type Flavor”
“Butter Extracts”
All things I regularly cook up for the kids. I don’t know what it is you think you can fix but it ain’t nothing I have that is broken numb nut.
you are an idiot and I hope one day you get to enjoy a 6 month round of chemo
butter extracts are diacetyl
get a chemistry book and a clue
Peperoni Pizzatas…? Not sure what the hell it is…but by the list above it looks like its made with wheat flour! and i do know my 2 kids say they love them ….the more they take out to make “healthy” the more chemicals get added back to make them taste good. Michelle Obama will have our kids eating a small green pill soon anyways soooooo. Back to the facts…nice job Harford. Kudo’s for keeping the public aware.
It’s unfortunate this is your view of a healthy diet for you and your kids. It’s funny now, but no so much when you get sick and wonder why…….
Raul,
What does this have to do with Michelle Obama? From what I have read, she would rather your children eat little green salads and other vegetables, but she has never mentioned a pill.
You do not have to remove anything from food to make it healthy unless it has been processed in a factory and you do not have to put anything in healthy food for it to taste good.
soon enough…..just saying peggy sue did not like the fact that they had all chemicals in the food that was recalled. Everything has chemicals in them these days and soon enough ….that will be cheaper alternative for many families. My dear….everything is manufactured in a factory. Go enjoy some granola with Peggy. Michelle has been a fanatic about eating well so i figured i’d piss a few people off! Guess I was was successful. Way off track on this thread. Hail to our emperor and his wife! Cheers!
I can make a pizza at home from scratch with no chemicals.
Just sayin.
Do you put vital wheat gluten in your pizza dough? It’s in the flour anyway and adding extra makes the dough chewy and yummy. What about malt barley? How about yeast? Those little guys are enzymes. You can’t make cheese without enzymes either.
I have a garden and preserve what I can because it tastes better, but I’m not afraid of chemicals. I made all of my kids’ baby food too because I was a stay at home mom, had the time, and enjoyed it. Thought it would help my kids become more healthy eaters because they started with “the real thing”. Now that they are adults I see it probably didn’t make a difference, but I tried and it certainly didn’t hurt them. Not sure it saved me any money other than I didn’t have to buy a lot because of my garden and fruit trees. Then again, they are pretty expensive and time consuming to keep up. Just because something is natural doesn’t make it safe. You wouldn’t want a side order of poisonous mushrooms, bella donna, or perhaps anthrax with your lunch.
People just need to be sensible, for goodness sakes. Is there any doubt that we aren’t much healthier nutrition wise than our relatives 200 years ago were? I don’t care what they use to filter it, I’m happy to have clean water to drink!
The less processed foods you eat, the better. We make our own pizza dough and sauce….it’s pretty easy, actually. Too many over weight people, especially kids…….from eating too many processed foods. How many people do you know that have diabetes? Probably a lot and probably a lot that were preventable through sensible eating. Watch ‘Forks over knives’ for help with eating healthy.
Steve, Maybe the kids are overweight from eating too much of whatever they eat (as well as eating the wrong stuff) plus sitting in front of a TV or a computer game getting their brains scrambled. I’m going to say something that will have a lot of you gnashing your teeth. If you take your kids to a fast food joint more than once a week you are a lousy parent.
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Today, I went to the beachfront with my kids.
I found a sea shell and gave it to my 4 year old daughter
and said “You can hear the ocean if you put this to your ear.” She placed
the shell to her ear and screamed. There was a hermit crab inside and it pinched her ear.
She never wants to go back! LoL I know this is entirely off topic but
I had to tell someone!