Food Poisoning Possible Cause of Outbreak that Sickened 60 Students at Cesar Chavez Elementary
On Monday, sixty students at Cesar Chavez Elementary School in Coachella, California, got sick. Riverside County health officials are investigating the outbreak and are looking at food poisoning as a possible cause.
About 800 students and 10 adults were served taco salad with ground beef, shredded cheese and lettuce, salsa and an apple cobbler. Health officials took food samples and inspected the school kitchen. They are also interviewing students and looking at school records to see if they ate the lunch and if they all ate the same food for lunch, for example, if all of them had lettuce on their tacos.
