NJ School Changes Milk Vendor After 30+ Children Sickened By Sanitizer Spurring Lawsuit: Report

The Camden City School District has changed one of its milk vendors after nearly 30 students were sickened by cartons of milk contaminated with a sanitizer, NJ Advance Media reports.

Early Childhood Development Center in Camden.
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Jon Craig

04/12/2022 8:56 a.m.

A peroxyacetic sanitizer was found in Guida’s Dairy low-fat milk on March 30 at the Early Childhood Development Center, a pre-K school in Camden, as previously reported by Daily Voice.

The contamination incident triggered a federal class-action lawsuit from parents of sickened children.

“It was determined that the substance found in the milk cartons was a non-toxic consumable sanitizer that runs through the vendor’s machines prior to milk," Camden Superintendent Katrina McCombs said in an April 4 letter to parents.

"Unfortunately, many cartons were filled with the sanitizer, sealed, and then shipped out with the milk,”

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