The nation's schools were not promptly informed about contaminated peanut butter and other recently recalled foods, which resulted in hundreds of food poisoning cases in recent years, a new Government Accountability Office report finds.

A company in Fresno, California, is issuing a product recall after concern over food poisoning relating to its ground beef products that are believed to be contaminated with salmonella bacteria.

Tanimura & Antle Inc. of Salinas, California, has recalled about 22,000 cartons of lettuce because of a California food poisoning hazard.