Sentences with phrase «school food authorities reported»

Finding 2: Only 42 percent of school food authorities reported having a budget to purchase capital equipment, and less than half expected the budget to be adequate to meet their equipment needs.

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The European Commission Joint Research Centre and Directorate - General for Health and Food Safety have presented a report to help authorities implement healthy food standards ensuring that they procure healthy school fFood Safety have presented a report to help authorities implement healthy food standards ensuring that they procure healthy school ffood standards ensuring that they procure healthy school foodfood.

Full costs include reported costs as well as costs that could be charged to school food authority budgets but are not.

The information presented in this report is based on a self - administered, online survey of school food service directors or their designees (primarily food service managers) from a nationally representative sample of the administrators of public school food authorities.

School food authorities, * or SFAs, are managing to serve healthier meals despite challenges, such as limitations in their existing kitchen equipment and infrastructure and in the knowledge and skills of food service staff.5 As of September 2013, USDA data confirm that 80 percent of schools reported meeting the standards.6 These changes are a huge step forward for child nutrition and, therefore, children's health.

The brokers who deliver meals to schools often do not tell authorities where they got the food, and they rarely provide inspection reports on those plants.

They've requested (PDF) that the U.S. Government Accountability Office issue a report that examines the costs associated with the new nutrition standards and the additional assistance school food authorities might need to implement the changes.