Report : Video: School Meals Get Healthier: Students and Experts React
Standard Nutrition standards for school meals were last updated in January 2012—the first update since 1995. As a result, students are seeing more fruits, vegetables and whole grains on the menu, as...
View ArticleEvent : Jessica Donze Black Participates in Twitter Chat on Healthy School Foods
Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project joins MomsRising.org for their #FoodFri tweetchat this Friday, February at 1 p.m. ET to discuss childhood obesity and the impact of snacks and beverages sold in...
View ArticlePress Release : Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project Commends USDA for...
Jessica Donze Black, director of the Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project, issued the following statement regarding the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s proposed nutrition standards for snack...
View ArticleReport : Record-High Antibiotic Sales for Meat and Poultry
The same antibiotics used to treat sick people are also given to healthy animals — in much greater numbers — to make them grow faster and to compensate for overcrowded and unsanitary conditions. These...
View ArticleReport : Calculating the Cost of School Lunches
Where does your middle school student's lunch money go? Imagine that you give your student $2.50 to buy a meal at school. A new interactive released by the Kids' Safe and Healthful Food Project shows...
View ArticleSummary : New Nutrition Rules For School Snacks (Winter 2013 Trust Magazine)
For the first time in more than three decades, the government has proposed new guidelines for snack foods sold in schools that will encourage more fruit and more low-fat and whole-grain items while...
View ArticleSummary : Keeping Food Safety on the Menu (2013 Winter Trust Magazine)
The first major overhaul of the nation's food safety system since the Great Depression is moving forward, now that the Food and Drug Administration has proposed new rules aimed at halting the...
View ArticleReport : Too Slow: One of Nation’s Largest Poultry Recalls Came Too Late
A multistate outbreak of Salmonella Heidelberg infections linked to ground turkey in 2011 sickened 136 people, causing 37 hospitalizations and one death. The Pew Charitable Trusts' analysis of the...
View ArticleMedia Coverage : The Junk Food Loophole in USDA's Regulations
A recent LA Times story cites Jessica Donze Black, the director of the Kids' Safe and Healthful Foods Project, about loopholes in regulations.
View ArticleMedia Coverage : The Junk Food Loophole in USDA's Regulations
A recent LA Times story cites Jessica Donze Black, the director of the Kids' Safe and Healthful Foods Project, about loopholes in regulations.
View ArticleMedia Coverage : The Junk Food Loophole in USDA's Regulations
A recent LA Times story cites Jessica Donze Black, the director of the Kids' Safe and Healthful Foods Project, about loopholes in regulations.
View ArticleSummary : New Nutrition Rules For School Snacks (Winter 2013 Trust Magazine)
For the first time in more than three decades, the government has proposed new guidelines for snack foods sold in schools that will encourage more fruit and more low-fat and whole-grain items while...
View ArticleSummary : New Nutrition Rules For School Snacks (Winter 2013 Trust Magazine)
For the first time in more than three decades, the government has proposed new guidelines for snack foods sold in schools that will encourage more fruit and more low-fat and whole-grain items while...
View ArticleMedia Coverage : The Junk Food Loophole in USDA's Regulations
A recent LA Times story cites Jessica Donze Black, the director of the Kids' Safe and Healthful Foods Project, about loopholes in regulations.
View ArticleMedia Coverage : The Junk Food Loophole in USDA's Regulations
A recent LA Times story cites Jessica Donze Black, the director of the Kids' Safe and Healthful Foods Project, about loopholes in regulations.
View ArticleSummary : New Nutrition Rules For School Snacks (Winter 2013 Trust Magazine)
For the first time in more than three decades, the government has proposed new guidelines for snack foods sold in schools that will encourage more fruit and more low-fat and whole-grain items while...
View ArticleMedia Coverage : The Junk Food Loophole in USDA's Regulations
A recent LA Times story cites Jessica Donze Black, the director of the Kids' Safe and Healthful Foods Project, about loopholes in regulations.
View ArticleSummary : Keeping Food Safety on the Menu (2013 Winter Trust Magazine)
The first major overhaul of the nation's food safety system since the Great Depression is moving forward, now that the Food and Drug Administration has proposed new rules aimed at halting the...
View ArticleReport : Too Slow: One of Nation’s Largest Poultry Recalls Came Too Late
A multistate outbreak of Salmonella Heidelberg infections linked to ground turkey in 2011 sickened 136 people, causing 37 hospitalizations and one death. The Pew Charitable Trusts' analysis of the...
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