Do you think the new Institute of Medicine standards for
competitive foods go far enough?
Not exact matches
When those rules
go into effect in the 2014 - 15 school year, sales of FMNV will certainly be barred, as will almost all of the
competitive food currently sold in high school «
food courts.»
Among the modifications advocated by the SNA are: removing the new requirement that students take a fruit or vegetable with their meal; changes to the whole grain requirements; and extending the comment period for the interim final
competitive food (school snack) regulations that are to
go into effect this summer.
The Abbey Group is large enough to be able to buy large quantities of
food at
competitive prices and distribute it to various schools — and is already sourcing 30 percent of its
food regionally, from Vermont and New Hampshire; the percentage
goes up to 40, Hansen said, if milk is included.
The SNA is also asking USDA to extend the comment period on the new
competitive food rules which, if they
go into effect as planned on July 1st, will represent the first meaningful regulation of snack
foods on school campuses, everything from vending machine offerings to the items offered in cafeteria «a la carte» lines.
«Since 2003, I have had the pleasure to work with thousands of schools across the country to improve
competitive foods before there was a policy to do so and have personally seen the beneficial transformative effect that occurs when a school
goes from junk -
food vending to healthy vending.
My fear is that once the new federal
competitive food rules are in place across the board, we're
going to see major manufacturers of processed
foods simply rejigger their formulas to meet the new nutritional requirements.
The GAO report
went on to state that these
competitive foods are offered usually for the revenue that they provide schools.
«You need to be
competitive on
food, that's the driver of what causes someone to
go into a store,» says Michael San Roman, president of The Pet Firm, an Acosta company.
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