Inspections are meant to ensure cafeteria workers wash their hands properly and that they keep lunchtime staples like pizza hot or milk cold to prevent germs from growing.
Millions of children eat in school cafeterias that don’t get the twice-yearly health inspections required by Congress to help prevent food poisoning.
Schools are supposed to get two visits from health inspectors every year. But one in 10 schools didn’t get inspected at all last year, according to Agriculture Department data obtained by The Associated Press. Thirty percent were visited only once.
Ken Kelly, an attorney for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer group that has studied cafeteria safety asked, “Do you want to go to a restaurant that hasn’t been inspected?”
Well, Do you?
The good news is that Kentucky ranks tenth in the study with 88.32 percent of the schools inspected at least twice.
Read the MSNBC.com story. Photo by Jana Birchum / Getty Images.
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