Legislation Update: Food Safety and Food Marketing in Schools
Two new school food bills hit the table this week: the Safe Food for Schools Act, and the Food Marketing in Schools Assessment Act. The School Food For Schools Act comes in response to a dismal GAO report that found that federal notification to schools about contaminated food was spotty at ...
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September 24, 2009
History Handouts, Courtesy of the Local Pizzeria
By Deborah Lehmann — Is all that thinking making you hungry? In an effort to bring money into his cash-strapped school, a teacher in Idaho is running pizza ads on all his tests, worksheets and handouts. Molto Caldo Pizzeria has given economics and history teacher Jeb Harrison 10,000 sheets of paper ...
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March 28, 2009
Beyond the Food Challenges: Part 3 in the Berkeley Series
By Ann Cooper — Revamping the menu isn’t the only step to creating a successful school meal program. In Berkeley, we also addressed our facilities, our funding, our human resources and our marketing efforts. Facilities: I found that Berkeley’s kitchen facilities, like those of most public school districts, were in a state of ...
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March 10, 2009
Spending Away on In-School Marketing
By Deborah Lehmann — Food and Beverage companies spent close to $186 million on in-school marketing to children in 2006, according to a recent report by the Federal Trade Commission. The industry pumped money into cafeteria products, vending machines, school events, buses and athletic uniforms, pouring over 11 percent of their youth ...
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February 18, 2009
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