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Rats in the kitchen! Not the best thing in the world; especially when your kitchen serves up grub for hoards of school kids.

Actually its not the Welsh schools that suffered a rat infestation but a warehouse that supplies 300 schools in the region. Pembrokeshire Council said rats were found during a routine inspection at the Skelfayre warehouse in Pembroke Docks. This warehouse sends out food for school meals to Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion but also supplies other businesses including the schools, residential care homes, hotels, and restaurants . The contaminated food will be destroyed.

 

 

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The 'your children are fat and what are you going to do about it' vibe hits New Zealand as the chairman of an international obesity taskforce, Professor Philip James, says there is too much talk about obesity in New Zealand and not enough action.

Just as Jamie Oliver is taking action in the UK's schools, this chap says children's diets in New Zealand are "atrocious" because food companies recognise that by marketing to children they can manipulate eating patterns of entire families.

James says New Zealand should ban all food advertising on children's television and cut the goods and services tax on fresh fruit and vegetables. Voluntary codes do not work, he says, and New Zealand should pass laws to ban it and all other forms of food advertising that target children. Again like Oliver, he says that schools should ban sugary foods from their canteens.