Nearly half of public school cafeterias in New York City racked up at least one dangerous health code violation this past year, including evidence of rats and mice, roaches and flies.
An analysis of city
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National School Lunch Program aces ground beef safety review
There’s good news for millions of children who participate in the program daily: The National School Lunch Program’s strict food safety standards work.
A study led by researchers from the University of Connecticut and the
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ABC strikes back by churning up BPI’s earlier history
ELK POINT, SD — It would probably not be accurate to
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Legislation to revise school lunch program passes House committee
Controversial federal legislation to limit funding for subsidized school lunches and change some of the program’s nutritional standards passed a House committee on a 20-14 vote May 18, and the proposal is being hammered by
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Letter From the Editor: Agriculture’s Most Popular Man
I spent a couple of hours last week watching Thomas James (Tom) Vilsack wrap the House Education and Workforce Committee around his little finger. It came on his 2,338th day as United States Secretary of
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Letter From the Editor: It’s All About the Money, Fruit Cup
When it comes to the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), the partisan brouhaha has been about the menu. Later this year, however, Congress will reauthorize the Healthy and Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010, mostly
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Ground Beef in School Lunches Meets Stricter Microbial Standards
According to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report published last week, the ground beef supplied to school lunches contains “significantly less” Salmonella contamination than products sold on the commercial market. USDA’s Economic Research Service examined
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Spending Bill Bans ‘Chinese Chicken’ From Federal Meal Programs
A provision included in the $1.1-trillion spending bill Congress passed last week and which is now headed to the president’s desk prevents poultry processed in China from being used in the National School Lunch Program,
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Letter From the Editor: The ‘New’ School Lunch
For anyone who still gets the printed version of The New York Times, the pretty magazine among all those advertising inserts is worth a read today. It contains a smartly illustrated story entitled, “How School
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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 school year. In 2015, the standards
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Meat Recalls + Slaughter Plant Shutdowns = Supplier for the National School Lunch Program?
When you think about the food being served in school cafeterias nationwide, do the words meat recall, animal abuse, unsanitary conditions and slaughter plant shutdowns come to mind? Perhaps they should. A few weeks ago,
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