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"Just in time for kids to go back to school, sack lunch in hand, the American Academy of Pediatrics has released a study from the University of Texas showing those lunches may be unsafe. Key word being maybe.
For the study researchers looked at the home-packed lunches of more than 700 preschoolers at nine child care centers in Texas. They found that only 45.1 percent of the lunches had at least one ice pack.
The temperature of the lunches was then measured with a noncontact temperature gun an hour and half before the kids ate them. They found that over 90 percent of the lunches, even those with multiple ice packs, were at unsafe temperatures, making them susceptible to illness-causing bacteria.
Whether or not those lunches actually made kids sick however, was not studied, a criticism some say limit the study’s usefulness. Dr. Michael Green, a pediatrician with the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and a professor of pediatrics and surgery at the School of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, told msnbc.com the increased temperature of the food could raise risks, but it’s impossible to know by how much....[snip] Source
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I guess they need another study!
But Rep. Shelia Jackson-Lee and her Democratic Party wanted Perry's signature so the "money would flow to our schools within days."
Gov. Perry sued for Texas' money (without Washington telling us how to spend it) -- And won! Promise Kept.