News in Brief: A National Roundup

Some schools may have received turkey meat from a processing facility that has been linked to a recent outbreak of illness in the Northeast, federal officials said last week.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on Oct. 17 that it had purchased 1.8 million pounds of turkey for distribution to schools and other agencies from the facility in Franconia, Pa. The USDA was trying to determine how much of the food was still located in state-controlled warehouses and how much may have been sent to schools.

"We're not really sure as to whether any of it got as far as the school cafeteria and was consumed," said Steven Cohen, a spokesman for the USDA's...