Last weekend, I cooked dinner using entries from the Recipes for Healthy Kids competition, the joint venture by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and First Lady Michelle Obama’s
The Government Accountability Office urged the U.S. Department of Agriculture to strengthen its oversight of the safety of food purchased for the federal school meal program in a report
A new federal rule will give preference in contract bidding for school meals to local farm products, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced this week.
The final rule, published
For every rule, there must be at least one exception.
One of my rules is no reality television. It really has not been difficult. I’d just as much watch
When girls in the school lunch program are more likely to be obese than who choose not to participate, it’s probably time for change.
That’s exactly where the
USDA Announces Kansas State University will Host New Center of Excellence for Food Safety Research in Child Nutrition Programs
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Thursday announced that the soon-to-be Center of
Seventy-eight percent of U.S. voters think schools should meet higher nutrition standards for all foods served or sold to students, and many of them are willing to help pay
About four million elementary students should receive a free vegetable or fruit snack at school next year, thanks to the expansion of a U.S. Department of Agriculture program, Agriculture
It was a cold, stormy Wednesday morning at Bainbridge High School during second period when I walked down to the lunch room to see if I could talk to Brian
Food Safety News talks with leaders of some of the nation’s top school nutrition programs to find out what motivates kids to choose healthy food at the cafeteria.
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An outbreak of what health authorities believe is Salmonella has sickened at least 1,048 students, teachers, and staff members at nine schools in Iwamizawa, a city of about 90,
FoodCorps, a brand new national service program funded by AmeriCorps and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, launched this week and is now seeking applications for its first class of service