Schools, burger chains halt use of beef from slaughterhouse (The Fresno Bee) Two major hamburger chains and dozens of school districts around the nation have banned meat from a Chino slaughterhouse after a video showed workers brutalizing sick and crippled cows, officials said Friday. [News Source]

Health Scare Prompts Schools To Pull Meat (NBC 7/39 San Diego) San Diego Unified School District officials say they have stopped serving entrees containing beef that may be from a plant under investigation by the federal government. WARNING: DISTURBING IMAGES | DISTURBING VIDEO [News Source]

WA schools remove questionable beef from lunch menu (KTVB Boise) SEATTLE - The fallout from an undercover slaughterhouse investigation has hit Washington State. About 80 school districts in the state are scrambling to remove potentially tainted beef from the menu. [News Source]

Schools rush to track down suspect beef (The Columbian) Where's the beef? The question was an urgent one for Washington schools Thursday. At least 144 public and private school districts in the state have purchased 74,000 pounds of raw, frozen beef linked to the same supply recalled this week from Oregon school cafeterias over health concerns. [News Source]

Schools rush to keep beef off menu. Still, 80,000 pounds of raw ground beef from a California meatpacking plant have been served to Oregon schoolchildren or are waiting in cafeteria freezers. [News Source]

Beef’s risk to Oregon kids called ‘very small.’ Health officials say the beef that reached Oregon before federal inspectors pulled it from the school lunch program poses little or no danger to public health. [News Source]

Department of Education withholds Westland Meat products. An animal cruelty investigation at a California slaughterhouse has led the Hawaii Department of Education to stop using meat products from the company in question. [News Source]

Flaw in rule creates loophole for ill cows. The government was supposed to have fixed this problem - sick cattle being slaughtered for food. [News Source]

More News (Daily Bulletin) Beef is off the menu as public schools await the results of a federal investigation into a Chino slaughterhouse accused of abusing sick or injured cows. [News Source]

USDA to investigate possible abuses at California slaughterhouse (The World) WASHINGTON — The Agriculture Department said Wednesday it would investigate whether sick dairy cows were mistreated at a California slaughterhouse in violation of state and federal laws designed to ensure food safety and prevent animal cruelty. [News Source]