Beef yanked off school menus in South Florida

Source: Sun-Sentinel:

School cafeterias in Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties pulled meat entrees from lunch menus after the federal government closed the California slaughterhouse that provides meat to public schools throughout the country.

School district officials in all three South Florida counties asked food managers to place the suspect ground beef "on hold" to determine if it came from the Hallmark/Westland Meat Co., which is being investigated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.