Schools in the dark about tainted lunches
Students at Starbuck Middle School stumbled through the halls just after lunch on Oct. 31, 2007, holding their bellies and moaning. By midafternoon, almost 70 children waited outside the nurse's office at the school near Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  Days would pass before local health officials determined that the tortillas served at Starbuck and four other schools in Racine were to blame for 101 illnesses. The company, Del Rey Tortilleria, that supplied the tortillas had a long history of making children sick. A panel of top scientists with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration even offered this warning: "Flour tortillas manufactured by Del Rey hold the potential to cause illness." Despite the concerns, the FDA never shared the panel's warning with school officials anywhere. Blake Morrison and Peter Eisler, USA Today, November 17, 2009