HOUSTON – A local television station is exposing health reports for Houston school cafeterias, and the results may surprise some parents.

“In one inspection, food had to be condemned and thrown away,” KTRK reports. “In another inspection, rodent droppings were found in the (bottom) of a cabinet in the kitchen.”

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The reports, which detail inspections conducted mostly in 2015, show that some of the district’s school cafeterias could be putting student health at risk with lackadaisical oversights or contaminated equipment.

At Key Middle School, for example, inspectors in March 2015 found brown residue in ice makers, black residue on a frozen dessert machine, and rodent droppings in kitchen cabinets.

At the High School for Law Enforcement the same month, inspectors uncovered openings from the kitchen area to the outside, which invites varmints and insects, as well as a violation of unsanitary conditions in a garbage and recycling area.

The month prior, health inspectors noted food not kept at the proper temperatures to prevent contamination at Fonville Middle School, including cheeseburgers below the recommended internal temperature and food coolers at temperatures higher than necessary to keep food safe.

Also in February 2015 inspectors found orange juice in a front-line cooler that was too warm to prevent potential health hazards, which forced officials to dump the juice and stop using the cooler, KTRK reports.

Other inspections conducted at Houston school kitchens this summer showed similar problems.

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Inspectors found “potentially hazardous and ready-to-eat food stored at 41 degrees F for more than seven days,” as well as outdated ham and prosciutto in a walk in cooler at the district’s catering kitchen.

Other prepared and packaged foods found during that inspection in June also uncovered improperly labeled foods, including salami without a date.

Houston schools, of course, aren’t the only ones dealing with rodents and other contamination issues. School health inspections across the country have revealed cafeterias rife with rodents and cockroaches, contamination and germs.

In December, officials in Carrizo Springs, Texas were scrambling to explain away pictures posted online of dead rats in Carrizo Springs Elementary School, where employees have also found cases of “chewed” hamburger buns, EAGnews reports.

It was a similar situation in San Francisco. Rodents there invaded school kitchens shortly after the implementation of federal “healthy” food regulations championed by first lady Michelle Obama, the San Francisco Examiner reports.

Health inspectors in New Jersey discovered spoiled and rodent infested school lunches in cafeterias across the state, the same month a student in Farmington, New Mexico threw up on the playground after eating slimy, moldy roast beef sandwiches served at Belen Family School, KRQE reports.

Those incidents came about six months after schools in Chicago faced similar criticisms for roaches, rodents and other health hazards that forced officials to shut down the kitchen at Maria Saucedo Scholastic Academy last March, according to EAGnews.

And in Snohomish, Washington, district officials were forced to pay nearly $350,000 this past April to eradicate a rat infestation at Snohomish High School.