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GOP senators, school food directors push for easing nutrition standards

03/25/21 12:53 PM By Philip Brasher

Senate Republicans are joining school food service directors in pushing for relief from federal nutrition standards as Congress reauthorizes school meal programs.

USDA sued for weakening school sodium, whole grain requirements

04/03/19 3:47 PM By Steve Davies

Two lawsuits have been filed in federal court challenging USDA’s rollback of sodium and whole-grain requirements in public school meals.

Schools going local when buying student food

08/21/18 12:10 AM By Philip Brasher

Schools have sharply increased their purchases of locally produced foods in recent years while also taking other measures to reduce food waste and encourage kids to eat more healthful products, including installing school gardens.

USDA’s Perdue puts brakes on school nutrition standards

05/01/17 5:00 PM By Bill Tomson

LEESBURG, Va., May 1, 2017 – USDA is putting a hold on regulations in the National School Lunch Program that would require less salt and more whole grains in cafeterias, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said today at an elementary school in Virginia.

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Agri-Pulse Newsmakers: April 26, 2024: USDA Undersecretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Jenny Lester Moffitt on bird flu, competition

USDA Undersecretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Jenny Lester Moffitt oversees the Agricultural Marketing Service and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. She joins us to discuss the latest on the bird flu outbreak and how USDA is responding.

Then, Michael Dykes with the International Dairy Foods Association and Fred Gingrich with the American Association of Bovine Practitioners join to chat more about the impact the bird flu has had on the dairy industry.

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