Thursday, June 16, 2011

More than just food in some MCPS cafeterias

Mouse droppings, roaches, chemicals hiding in school cafeterias | Lisa Gartner | DC | Washington Examiner

The majority of Fairfax and Montgomery schools were incident-free, but some lunchroom lapses alarmed school employees. At Roscoe R. Nix Elementary School in Silver Spring, a cafeteria worker "sneeze[d] in hands and proceeded to touch food," as a health inspector wrote. 
At Kensington Parkwood Elementary, an inspector wrote, "Roach infestation observed. ... Floors are not clean under and behind equipments. Dead roaches observed." At Woodlin Elementary in Silver Spring, mouse droppings covered the floor, and at Rock Creek Forest Elementary in Chevy Chase, the sanitizing solution had so much chemical solution as to "make it toxic. 
"We have very few critical violations, and most of the time they're corrected immediately," said Marla Caplon, director of food and nutrition services for Montgomery's public schools.


Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/local/dc/2011/06/mouse-droppings-roaches-chemicals-hiding-school-cafeterias#ixzz1PSOiVb4o

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