At Center Middle School things are getting back to normal a week after a nasty illness swept through the building.
The illness sickened at least 50 students and teachers. The district believes it was a case of stomach flu.
"We were just trying to rush to find out what it is and how to stop it," Kelly Wachel, a spokesperson with the Center School District said.
But on social media, some parents were concerned it could be something else and raised questions about the school's meals.
41 Action News asked the KCMO Health Department for the middle school's health inspection records for the last two years.
Documents show in January the health department paid a visit to check on a complaint that bugs were found on some food.
The inspector didn't find any pests, but saw pineapple, broccoli, cucumber and sliced tomato being stored at the wrong temperature.
The law says cold food needs to be stored at or below 41 degrees and hot food at 135 degrees or above.
"[Anything in between] this is what we call a danger temperature zone any food product that is ready to eat that requires temperature control cannot be in this temperature range," Naser Jouhari, Senior public health manager for the KCMO Health Department said.
In 2016, inspectors issued six violations regarding food temperature over four visits. In September, hamburgers temperatures were observed at 116 degrees, 19 degrees below what's required.
"All these things are habits so we want to break the habit by going back," Jouhari said.
The Health Department told 41 Action News that not keeping food at the correct temperature is the number one problem for food establishments across the city. They issued 1,649 violations for it last year.
"We don't want to have it happen all the time and it's not. It's something that we look on a case by case basis," Wachel said.
The school district is confident the food wasn't the culprit last week.
"We also have indications that students and staff that didn't eat cafeteria food were affected by the illness," Wachel said.
Any issues the health department uncovered have since been fixed.
Meanwhile, in 2016, the health department gave Center High School a coveted award for being a food establishment with a low amount of violations.
The health department wants to parents to know if they have concerns regarding food safety at their child's school to call 311 or their office at 816-513-6315.
