Some of us in the US have eaten lunches provided by our parents' academy system of choice. Over on the other side of the world, in the Asian subcontinent, 25 children have already died due to food poisoning from a school cook. The cook himself has also fallen ill and is in the hospital.
The children, aged 5 to 12, became ill and started to vomit after consuming the India school meal mandatorily provided by the government of the Republic of India, with at least 1.241 billion in population since 2011.
Often times, the food would contain lizards, insects, and cockroaches. Some children have opted to consume other non-nutritional snacks to fill their stomachs instead of chancing themselves in consuming the X-Factor-like foods.
The education program provided the students rice, potatoes, soybeans, and lentils. Poonam Kumari, Mashrakh village's local government administrator, informed Reuters that, "The administration has helped cremate 21 children, and unfortunately, four more children have to be cremated." The death toll is expected to rise as 48 more children are being treated in the hospitals.
The cook himself has also fallen ill. While he was preparing the India school meal, he smelled something "foul" in the cooking oil. After reporting the situation to the headmistress, however, he was commanded to continue the use of the oil, which could have contained the poisonous organophosphorus materials. Organophosphorus is usually used in insecticides.
Though the school system regularly provides 2.5 million metric tons of grain to about 600,000 schools, the transportation system and the storage system has not been effectively standardized and is the source of possible contamination. Sources say that grain that is used in the India school meal are usually stored in disease-ridden conditions for up to 3 years.
"When food grain is stored for more than two years, the quality becomes a problem," said N.C. Saxena, an Supreme Court appointed official in 2001 to oversee this midday meal program.
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