Sentences with phrase «for competitive foods»

Officials say they have not even started on the rules for competitive foods.

The school food authority should not be held responsible for competitive food violations conducted outside the breakfast / lunch program, and this should be clearly stated in the language.

Click here to read more about USDA's proposed new standards for competitive foods sold in schools.

Last week the Massachusetts Public Health Council made news by promulgating, at the direction of the state's Governor, new statewide guidelines for competitive foods sold in schools.

Do you think the new Institute of Medicine standards for competitive foods go far enough?

I compared some of the nutrition of a few products you listed, particularly Larabars to what the school district must serve to meet the Healthier US School Challenge for competitive foods and unfortunately they don't meet the calorie requirements.

Your professional HUMAN operator installs your healthy vending machines, sets up delivery for competitive food offerings, and kicks off your program with a bang!

The USDA issued nutrition standards for school meals early in 2012, but it's taken this long to issue the ones for competitive foods, no doubt because of the expected uproar from food and drink producers whose products will now be excluded.

They need to break even and if they do make any profit it needs to go right back into wellness... at least that is what we were told by the state and the federal government... yes, we contacted them after we were told by the food service director that the wellness policy was just for the competitive foods and not for the other regular meals, which of course is not true.

Congress did pass legislation mandating that nutrition standards be written for competitive foods in schools but Big Food (the companies that brought you «Pizza is a vegetable») is lobbying overtime to ensure that these standards are weakened and delayed.

The good news is, new federal guidelines (to be released for comment later this year) will improve nutritional standards for competitive foods nationwide.

These requirements for competitive foods do not apply to food and beverages available only to staff and faculty, food provided at no cost by parents, food sold or provided at official after - school events, or food and beverages served at adult education programs.

As I outlined in a piece for Civil Eats, the House CNR bill would have seriously undermined key school food provisions, including taking a decidedly anti-science approach to school nutrition standards, significantly limiting the Community Eligibility Provision (which provides free meals to students in low - income areas without paperwork or stigma) and opening the junk food floodgates on school campuses by gutting the Smart Snacks rules for competitive food.

This news comes at a time when healthy vending is a hot issue, especially as the USDA recently launched its proposed guidelines for competitive foods (i.e. foods sold in school vending machines, a la carte and in student stores), which are currently undergoing public comment.

The AAP's statement applauds recent nutritional gains made in school meals (gains which are currently under attack) as well as the new «Smart Snacks in School» rules for competitive food.

Only two - thirds of the directors said that all the foods and beverages sold «a la carte» in their meal programs met the Smart Snacks standards for competitive food, and only two in ten directors reported that products sold by other departments and groups on campus (e.g., through student fundraisers) were Smart Snacks compliant.

The four final rules, announced yesterday on a media call by the USDA Deputy Under Secretary Katie Wilson, specifically pertain to: the «Smart Snacks» standards for competitive foods, i.e., foods sold to children through school stores, vending machines, a la carte lines and fundraisers; local school wellness policies; the Community Eligibility Provision, which allows free meals for all kids in high - poverty areas without paper applications; and administrative review.

I'm writing my senior honors thesis on school nutrition policy, and in my research, I stumbled upon the Cool School Cafe, the underside of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation's voluntary health standards for competitive foods.

In issuing these standards for competitive foods, Massachusetts may be trying to get a jump on new federal rules for competitive foods which are supposed to be issued this December, a requirement of last year's passage of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act.

Its rules for competitive foods were sent to the White House Office of Management and Budget in mid-March, but are still stuck there, most likely because the White House does not want to introduce regulations that might adversely affect food company sales during an election year, especially one in which the role of government is so prominent an issue.

At long last the USDA released Interim Final Rules for competitive foods — the snacks and sodas sold from vending machines and carts outside of federally supported school lunches.

USDA deserves much applause and support for its courage in issuing rules for competitive foods that might actually help kids stay healthier.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will delay issuing nutrition standards for competitive foods: When the USDA issued nutrition standards for school meals in January 2012, the rules elicited unexpected levels of opposition.

The tip sheets and webinar build on Controlling Junk Food and the Bottom Line, a report presenting case studies of schools in thirteen middle and high schools in nine school districts around the country that improved nutrition standards for their competitive food and beverages without significant negative financial impact.