In Forsyth County, Georgia, school officials were poised to destroy 11 cases of frozen beef patties that were found at six schools. The meat, valued at $777, will be placed in heavy-duty plastic bags and doused with bleach before being put into trash bins.
In Gwinnett County, 79 cases of taco filling and 174 cases of rotini with meat sauce had to be disposed. Disposal will follow the USDA guidelines and costs will be reimbursed for expenses involved in destroying the meat.
At least 37 Georgia school systems bought 6,300 60-pound cases of Westland beef and probably had used half of it before the USDA raised suspicions about the company's operations.
In Michigan, over 10 tons of hamburger and ground beef will be thrown away, a lot of which had already been served to students in tacos and spaghetti sauce.
In California and Washington state, public schools have removed beef from their lunch menus on suspicion that the meat came from Westland.
Because of this, consumer groups are pressing the USDA to disclose the retail outlets that have sold the recalled beef because consumers have no way of knowing whether the store from which they've purchased their meat was involved in a recall.
