The Minnesota Department of Education is reporting at least 16 schools across Minnesota have recalled peanuts in their inventories.
After the FDA expanded the scope of the "Peanut Corporation of America" recall.
One of the school districts involved is I-S-D 363 in Northome.
Chris Buckley spoke with the district superintendent Wednesday about what they're doing to make sure students are safe.
As lawmakers demand answers and call for reform more than a dozen schools across Minnesota are getting rid of two and a half tons of peanut products.
The FDA expanded the recall to include peanuts produced at the Peanut Corporation of America from 2007 on.
ISD 363 in Northome - serving nearly 400 students - still had a couple cases of those peanuts left.
"Yesterday we received information on how to dispose of those products, there's a process we have to go through to dispose of them."
Per department of education standards, smaller quantities of recalled products need to be destroyed on site... and witnessed by two people.
"To make sure no one gets a hold of them for human consumption."
The school has already replaced their peanut butter with a brand not involved in the recall.
"For a short period of time we did use sunflower butter but that wasn't quite the hit we would have liked."
Jaszczak says the peanuts in question are all from 2007 and there's been no report of illness at either of the districts two schools.
Senator Amy Klobuchar says she will continue to push for reform in our food safety system.
Last week she urged President Obama to appoint a new commissioner to the Food and Drug Administration.
At least nine deaths are now linked to this outbreak and more than 600 people sickened.
Wednesday the owner of the Georgia Plant at the center of all this appeared before congress, but he refused to talk.
Lawmakers presented company emails showing Stewart Parnell ordered workers at his Georgia plant to send out peanuts tainted with salmonella because he was worried about losing money.
Decorated Korean war vet and Duluth native Clifford Tousignant died after eating tainted peanut butter last month.
His son Lou was outraged by Parnell's email.
"He was really playing Russian Rullet with the children and elderly when he sent this out."
The company sold its peanut butter to nursing homes and cafeterias.
The FBI is now leading the criminal investigation into Parnell.
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