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USDA Encourages Schools to Improve Nutrition
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack encouraged schools throughout the country to participate in the Healthier US School Challenge this week. USDA created this initiative to recognize schools that that...
View ArticleMaking School Food Healthier
Some kids have already started attending classes, and most will be back in school after Labor Day. Many parents may justifiably be wondering about recent efforts to improve the quality of the food...
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White House Chef Predicts Nutrition Bill Will Pass
The Child Nutrition Reauthorization bill that stalled last month still has a chance, according to White House Assistant Chef Sam Kass. Yesterday, Kass, who also serves as the senior policy adviser on...
View ArticleHouse Vote Expected on Child Nutrition Bill
Despite a last-minute procedural move by House Republicans to block it, a vote is expected today on the $4.5 billion legislation (over the next 10 years) that would expand eligibility for national...
View ArticleChild Nutrition Act Ready for President’s Approval
The Child Nutrition bill passed 264-157 by the House of Representatives Thursday includes several provisions to make school meals healthier and safer. The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, had...
View ArticleSchool Bake Sales to be ‘Approved, Infrequent’
The child nutrition bill President Obama is expected to sign is supposed to make school breakfasts, lunches, and after-school meal programs nutritious for all. And to make sure no one can cheat, the...
View ArticlePresident to Sign Landmark Child Nutrition Bill
Today President Obama will sign the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 into law during a special signing ceremony at a local Washington, D.C. school. The bill, which reauthorizes many federal...
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‘Produce U’ Puts Focus on Food Safety in Schools
Meet the Local Food Dude. He’s Chef Tim Cipriano, executive director of Food Services for New Haven, CT public schools. When he walks into one of the district’s schools wearing his white chef’s coat...
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Letter From The Editor: George Stanley McGovern, 1922-2012
George McGovern, 1972 Democratic Party presidential nominee and former U.S. Congressman and Senator from South Dakota died Oct. 21 at age 90. He was a World War II pilot of a B-24 Liberator bomber,...
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School Waivers From New Nutrition Standards Could Become Bridge to 2015
New language offered by the House Appropriations Committee would allow schools than can demonstrate economic hardship to obtain a temporary waiver from new nutrition standards for the upcoming 2014-15...
View ArticleVilsack Previews Child Nutrition Act
Yesterday Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack previewed the Obama Administration’s priorities for the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act, which addresses Federal Child Nutrition Programs. The...
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Vilsack Makes Case for School Lunch Reform
In a speech yesterday at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack discussed the Obama Administration’s priorities for school lunch reform and urged Congress to act...
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Update: Food Policy on Capitol Hill This Week
Updated with witness lists and Senate hearing details It is going to be a busy week for food and health issues in the Capital. President Obama is expected to announce the way forward for health care...
View ArticleKeeping School Lunches Safe and Healthful
A senate panel last week unanimously approved the “Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010,” clearing it for a final vote. The legislation is a re-vamping of the Child Nutrition Act, originally passed...
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Critics: Child Nutrition Act Needs Boost
After a series of USA Today exposes in 2009 found staggering gaps in school food safety, many in food policy circles thought food safety would be addressed in the Child Nutrition Act (CNA)...
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School Food Safety Inspections Lacking
Although federal law requires schools across the country to have food safety inspections twice a year, nearly 9,000 schools during the 2007-2008 school year did not. According to data from the U.S....
View ArticleSchool Lunches Could Threaten Security
A group of retired military officers yesterday cited school lunches as a threat to America’s national security. Mission: Readiness, as the group is called, appeared yesterday on Capitol Hill with...
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Rachael Ray Gets Tough on School Lunch
Using her self-dubbed “big Sicilian mouth,” celebrity chef Rachael Ray asked Congress Tuesday to cough up more money for school lunches. “How could you go to any state in the union and say you are not...
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$8 Billion Boost Proposed for Child Nutrition
Historic nutrition bill increases funding, expands nutritional standards, and tackles school food safety House lawmakers introduced a historic child nutrition bill yesterday that would target childhood...
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House to Hold Hearing on School Nutrition Bill
UPDATED — The House Education and Labor Committee has announced it will hold its first hearing on the Improving Nutrition for America’s Children Act, an $8 billion bill to fund federal nutrition...
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House Committee Considers Historic Nutrition Bill
House Holds First Hearing on Child Nutrition Reauthorization Bill: Obesity, Hunger, School Food Safety All on Agenda Celebrity chef and restaurateur Tom Colicchio, a panel of food policy experts, and...
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Child Nutrition Bill Clears House Committee
Food Safety Provisions Remain in Bill, Lawmakers Add Pilots to Increase Organic, Vegetarian Food in Schools An historic $8 billion child nutrition bill is one step closer to passage. Yesterday, the...
View ArticleReid Wants to Pass Food Bills Before Recess
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said Tuesday he hopes to pass pending food safety legislation and the child nutrition reauthorization, two major food bills, before August recess. Majority...
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Sen. Lincoln Leads Charge on Child Nutrition Bill
Standing alongside key lawmakers, child nutrition advocates, and elementary students dressed as grapes, apples, carrots, and bananas, Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Blanche Lincoln (D-AR)...
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First Lady Calls for Action on Child Nutrition
With the expiration date on the child nutrition program quickly approaching, First Lady Michelle Obama is again calling on Congress get moving on the pending reauthorization bill. Mrs. Obama penned an...
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Landmark Child Nutrition Bill Clears Senate
The Senate unanimously approved child nutrition reauthorization yesterday, a big step forward for a bill fighting for time amidst a busy legislative agenda. The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act...
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