What has the horse meat scandal to do with schools? Well, look carefully at the parallels. Schools are highly regulated, just like food. The Food Standards Agency argues that it has been diligent and scrupulous in analysing products to check for micro-organisms, bacteria or disease.
They wanted to be sure that the food on the plate was safe and would do no harm. They just did not check whether the product they were testing was the one on the label – beef. They checked all the ingredients were acceptable to eat but just never thought to look at the food itself and check that it was actually beef.
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