Schools anxious about 'huge allergy risk' as MPI investigates school lunch provider

Schools anxious about 'huge allergy risk' as MPI investigates school lunch provider
School lunches are now made by a collective. (Image: Mark Mitchell)
Cécile Meier
On Friday morning, Christchurch’s Haeata Community Campus received a phone call from the School Lunch Collective telling them it needed to recall about 50 special dietary meals delivered at 9.30am. Principal Peggy Burrows was shocked to hear that the meals for students, including those with severe food allergies, had been mislabelled. The School Lunch Collective (SLC) called several Christchurch schools to inform them of the labelling error. It later visited Haeata and found that the meals were in fact safe, while it had to rela...

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