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New USDA guideline requires lower sodium in school lunches

 Feb. 10, 2014

Over the past two years the USDA has implemented strict guidelines in an effort to make school lunches more healthy, and they are about to get more strict.

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Possible banning of biometrics in Florida schools

 Feb. 03, 2014

Polk County parents were apoplectic last year when they discovered that the school district had been scanning student irises without parent permission.

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Reflections from SNIC

By Becky Schilling on Jan. 21, 2014

Sodium was top of mind at the School Nutrition Association’s SNIC conference last week.

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Mastering the New K-12 Meal Regulations

Sep. 09, 2013

School foodservice directors and staff, stand up and take a bow. Charged with making groundbreaking changes to the National School Lunch Program, and tackling the job under challenging circumstance, you are helping to make history. You are on the front li

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Affordable Care Act and LTC Dining Services

By Becky Schilling on Jun. 13, 2013

We've all heard about how hospital operators think the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will affect hospital foodservice, but no one is really mentioning the role long-term care facilities will play in the equation. For a recap: Under ACA hospitals are tas

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Is food anarchy the answer?

By Paul King on Nov. 29, 2012

I received an interesting email yesterday morning from Julie Gunlock, director of the Women for Food Freedom Project at the Independent Women’s Forum. She was promoting an opinion piece she had written for the Los Angeles Times. Although she asked for nothing, I suppose she was looking for a secondary outlet for her message.

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SNA 2012 Roundup: New Meal Regulations take Center Stage

By Becky Schilling on Aug. 14, 2012

In July more than 6,300 school nutrition professionals gathered in Denver for the 66th Annual National Conference of the School Nutrition Association. FSD was on hand for the conference, where the hot topic was the new USDA meal pattern regulations, which

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Food and a funeral?

By Becky Schilling on Jul. 11, 2012

Last month I read an interesting article in the York (Pa.) Dispatch, about funeral homes and foodservice. The article was prompted by the lifting of a fifty-year-old ban that prohibited food from being served in Pennsylvania funeral homes. Four other states have a similar ban.

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"Selling" out

By Paul King on Jan. 18, 2012

I read an interesting article over the weekend, about a Florida state representative who wants to allow corporations to pay for the right to have their names attached to elementary and secondary school cafeterias. Rep. Irv Slosberg, a Democrat from Boca Raton, has introduced the “Public School Food Service Enhancement Act” into the state legislature.

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Legislating Health

By Becky Schilling on Oct. 20, 2011

Six states and the district of Colombia passed legislation in 2010 that mandated "healthy" reforms in school meals programs. Those bills were in addition to the national Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. All these laws have directors asking, "

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