New York City has cut chicken tenders from its public school lunch menus after bones or blue plastic were reportedly found in the chicken.

The Department of Education had ordered for the tenders already at school cafeterias to be destroyed after receiving seven complaints about the alleged bones and plastic earlier this school year, according to City Limits.

However, after sending them to a facility where they were X-rayed, they were reportedly cleared for use and resent to schools.

But staff at a school in Manhattan said bones were found in that same batch of chicken tenders last month, sources told City Limits.

New York City has cut chicken tenders (file photo above) from its public school lunch menus after bones or blue plastic were reportedly found in chicken

SchoolFood originally placed the chicken tenders, supplied by Somma Food Group, on hold on October 29 before temporarily removing them from menus.

A Department of Education spokesperson released a statement to Dailymail.com saying the chicken tenders have been 'temporarily removed' from SchoolFood menus 'out of an abundance of caution.'

'The safety of all students and staff is our top priority. We swiftly took action and are investigating the incident,' the statement read.

'We are working closely with the vendor, and distribution of the item will remain on hold until all concerns have been addressed.'

The chicken tenders incident comes as the city's public schools cut sliced pizza from its menu for the second time since the start of the school year on Tuesday after complaints of discolored slices suspected to be mold (handout photo above)

Somma Food Group spokesman Michael Turley said the company was investigating the situation.

'We have had reports of a few bone occurrences and we are working with the city on additional quality assurance steps,' Turley told the New York Daily News.

The chicken tenders incident comes as the city's public schools cut sliced pizza from its menu for the second time since the start of the school year on Tuesday, Department of Education officials said.

The city first removed pizza from its public school lunches in early September amid complaints of what appeared to be mold in a limited number of cafeterias.

But pizza returned to cafeterias on October 21 before it was reportedly pulled from menus again on Tuesday.

This came after a school employee found another discolored green slice, according to The New York Daily News.

The removal of the chicken tenders and slice pizza (handout photo pictured) is system-wide

Department of Education officials said no mold was found in the pizza, supplied by Schwan's, and that it did not pose any health risks, the newspaper reported.

Officials did not say when pizza would return to school menus.

'Distribution of the item will remain on hold until all concerns have been addressed,' Department of Education spokeswoman Toya Holness told the New York Daily News.

Chuck Blomberg, a Schwan's spokesman, told the New York Daily News the company is working with the city to determine what was wrong with the discolored slice most recently discovered.

Blomberg added the company is conducting a routine review.

The system-wide removal of chicken tenders and pizza from school menus will impact about 1,300 city schools, according to the New York Daily News.