The CDE (California Department of Education) sent a press release out about how districts should destroy ground beef from Hallmark/Westland. The release also includes a preliminary list of which districts received the meat and the number of units. Only three local districts were included in the list.

The highlights:

• A person of authority (i.e. food service director) must witness the destruction
• Some costs can be reimbursed, such as transportation to the disposal facility and destruction costs
• Other costs cannot be reimbused: employee overtime, long-distance phone calls, food used in place of recalled beef