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,
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
Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) detailed new, more stringent standards for ground beef purchased for the the National School Lunch Program in the wake of
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
Public health officials in China announced yesterday their Ministry of Education and State Food and Drug Administration have jointly launched an eight-month campaign to promote food safety in school cafeterias.
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
In areas of India where the Hindu majority holds sway, “spent cows” wander freely because they are considered sacred as motherly figures that gave people milk.
In the United States,
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
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,
Several hundred schools may have received recalled beef, USA Today reported Wednesday. The beef, potentially contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, was not purchased by the U.S. Department of
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
Two school districts in California recently served potentially contaminated meat to schoolchildren, according to KGET in Bakersfield.
According to the local news station, Tejon School District in Lebec and Frazier