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Soldiers, sailors now get the skinny on combat rations’ nutrition

The Department of Defense recently launched the Combat Rations Database to give personnel more information on field rations, from calorie counts and fat content to vitamin information and more.

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Director says Sodexo follows FDA guidelines; students unsure

Students at Franklin College are being assured that premade items by Sodexo follow FDA guidelines and are safe to eat, even though students see items sitting out.

“Taste of Sunrise” events, planned as part of National Nutrition Month, include cooking competitions, culinary demos, special lunches and more.

Cafeteria workers called police after a dusty green substance was found in a child’s lunch money bag. The mother blamed an ex-boyfriend’s marijuana growing operation.

Sodexo has announced that Marc Rolland, Vice President Benefits and Rewards for the Asia region, will replace long-serving chief financial officer Sian Herbert-Jones when she steps down next year.

A study performed at the University of Utah showed only 11 percent of food on campus is “real.” Dining services is appeasing students by changing to locally-sourced coffee and other products.

A foul odor, determined to have come from old equipment, sickened two cafeteria workers and closed several classrooms.

The cafeteria at George Munroe Elementary in Quincy closed after the foodservice manager found bats flying around the kitchen.

A food fight is brewing in Washington over school lunch standards as kids take mandatory servings of produce, just to throw them away.

A high school in Washington state won’t reopen the cafeteria where a student fatally shot four friends and wounded another last October.

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