Foreign matter in milk for school lunch Is it a dead mouse? Health center investigates Yamagata Tsuruoka October 1, 10:34

On the 30th, it was found that a bottle of milk served at a junior high school in Tsuruoka City, Yamagata Prefecture, contained a carcass that appeared to be a mouse.


The milk supplier acknowledges that foreign matter may have been mixed in during the manufacturing process, and the health center is investigating the cause in detail.

According to the Tsuruoka City Board of Education and the school lunch center, on the afternoon of the 30th, students noticed that black foreign substances were mixed in the bottled milk served at the school lunch in the city, and told the teacher.



The lid of the bottle was unopened, the students did not eat milk, and when the milk supplier who rushed to the bottle checked the inside of the bottle, a dead small animal that seems to be a mouse about 5 cm in length was found. ..



After the foreign body was found at school, I contacted the school broadcast not to drink milk, but 10 students and teachers in total drank all or part of it.



No foreign matter was found in the other bottles.



According to the Board of Education's interview, the supplier admits that foreign matter may have been mixed in during the milk production process, and the health center is investigating the cause in detail.



The supplier is delivering milk to five elementary and junior high schools in the city, including this junior high school, and for the time being, we will not provide milk for school lunch.



The city and the school lunch center say, "We would like to prevent recurrence based on the results of the health center survey."