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USDA's Latest Update to Nutrition Standards for School Meals. CRS Report R47522, Version 4. Updated
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Kara Clifford Billings – Congressional Research Service, 2024
The federal government has prescribed nutritional requirements for school meals since the authorization of the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) in 1946. Such requirements have changed throughout the course of history. Current law requires the Secretary of Agriculture to prescribe "minimum nutritional requirements" based on…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Nutrition, Lunch Programs, Breakfast Programs
The School Breakfast Program
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US Department of Agriculture, 2009
The School Breakfast Program is a federally assisted meal program operating in public and nonprofit private schools and residential child care institutions. It began as a pilot project in 1966, and was made permanent in 1975. The School Breakfast Program is administered at the Federal level by the Food and Nutrition Service. At the State level,…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Breakfast Programs, Nutrition, State Departments of Education
National School Lunch Program
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US Department of Agriculture, 2009
The National School Lunch Program is a federally assisted meal program operating in over 101,000 public and non-profit private schools and residential child care institutions. It provides nutritionally balanced, low-cost or free lunches to more than 30.5 million children each school day in 2008. In 1998, Congress expanded the National School Lunch…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Lunch Programs, Nutrition, State Departments of Education
Impact of Federal Commodity Programs on School Meal Nutrition. Policy Highlight
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2008
The number of overweight and obese children and adolescents has reached epidemic proportions, and recent federal surveys show that most school meals do not meet federal nutrition guidelines. Accordingly, there is growing interest in the nutritional quality of foods available in U.S. schools--and in the role of the government in helping to make…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Guidelines, Lunch Programs, Dietetics
Hearings Before the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs of the United States Senate, Ninety-Second Congress, First Session on Nutrition and Human Needs. Part 10--Micronutrient Supplements for School Lunch Program. Hearings Held Washington, D.C., December 7, 1971.
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs. – 1971
Contents of these hearings include the statement and testimony of the following witnesses: (1) Alan Young, Research Administrator, Research and Development Division, A. H. Robins Co.; Chairman, Board of Directors, Vitamin Information Bureau; (2) Dr. Joseph M. White, Nutritional and Medical Consultant, Miles Laboratories; (3) Dr. George Briggs,…
Descriptors: Dietetics, Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Food Service
National Nutrition Policy Study--1974. Hearings Before Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs of the United States Senate Ninety-Third Congress, Second Session. Part 4--Nutrition and Food Availability. Hearings Held Washington, D. C., June 20, 1974.
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs. – 1974
These hearings before the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs began with an opening statement by Senator Humphrey. Dr. R. Goldberg, panel cochairman, then presented the "Report and recommendation of the Panel on Nutrition and Food Availability." Testimony was heard from a number of experts and representatives of such organizations…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Business Responsibility, Dietetics, Federal Government
National Nutrition Policy Study--1974. Hearings Before the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs of the United States Senate Ninety-third Congress, Second Session. Part 4A--Appendix to Nutrition and Food Availability. Hearings Held Washington, D. C., June 20, 1974.
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs. – 1974
These hearings on nutrition and food availability are comprised of the testimony of a number of experts and representatives of such organizations as the State of Washington Food and Nutrition Council; National Livestock and Meat Board; Bakery and Confectionery Workers' Union of America; Self Help and Rural Economic Support Inc.; North American…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Dietetics, Federal Government, Federal Programs