Sentences with phrase «current school food standards»
This independent review had found that some schools and their caterers considered the current school food standards difficult to understand and use, particularly the nutritional analysis of recipes and menus.
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Woldow speculated that, based on the progressive meal program Ronnei previously oversaw as school food director in St. Paul, Minnesota, her election might signal a softening of SNA's current stance against science - based school nutrition standards.
«Current nutrition standards keep some junk food out of our schools but let other junk food in through the back door.
We discussed the final regulations, and how the new standards differ from current requirements, with moderator Cindy Brooks, Chair of the School Nutrition Association Public Policy & Legislation Committee and guest speakers Sam Kass (White House Assistant Chef, Senior Policy Advisor for Healthy Food Initiatives), Dr. Janey Thornton, PhD, SNS (Deputy Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services at USDA), and Melissa Rothstein (Deputy Director, Child Nutrition Programs at USDA).
I shared blog posts that: offered a plaintive farewell to Michelle Obama, a champion of child nutrition; expressed my deep fears about the fate of hungry kids under President Trump; told you how the current House Freedom Caucus wants to gut school food; introduced you to Trump's Agriculture Secretary, Sonny Perdue; explained that Trump's Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, isn't ending the school lunch program (rumors to the contrary); and analyzed some recent rollbacks to the Obama school meal nutrition standards.
Finding 1: The vast majority of school food authorities (88 percent) needed one or more pieces of equipment to help them meet the current lunch standards.
If you've been following the fight over school food, you know that the School Nutrition Association (SNA), the nation's leading organization of school food professionals, is the main force behind current efforts to weaken the new healthier meal stanschool food, you know that the School Nutrition Association (SNA), the nation's leading organization of school food professionals, is the main force behind current efforts to weaken the new healthier meal stanSchool Nutrition Association (SNA), the nation's leading organization of school food professionals, is the main force behind current efforts to weaken the new healthier meal stanschool food professionals, is the main force behind current efforts to weaken the new healthier meal standards.
If you're a current or former SNA member who supports the healthier school food standards, please sign and share this open letter.
The current standards were introduced because voluntary school food guidelines introduced in 2001 requiring caterers to provide healthy options but not to limit access to less healthy food had failed to promote healthier eating in school.