Schools keep watch for potential food problems

When parents bring in snacks for Sally Burgett's kindergarten class at South Side Elementary School in Champaign, she just asks that they are packaged and relatively healthy.

But now Burgett will be taking a closer look at the snacks before handing them out to her students, after hundreds of products containing contaminated peanuts have been recalled. They include ice cream, cookies, candy, snack crackers, granola bars and trail mixes.

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