Media Coverage
Media Coverage
| Date | Media Coverage | Topic |
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| May 7, 2013 |
''Budget Cuts Won't Reduce Food Safety Inspections'' "The Food and Drug Administration will not reduce food inspections because of budget cuts, despite warning earlier that it could be forced to eliminate thousands of inspections by Sept. 30." Source: USA TODAY |
Food Safety |
| May 6, 2013 |
''Bipartisan Bill Would Pay for School Kitchen Upgrades, Equipment'' Jessica Donze Black, director of the Pew Kids' Safe & Healthful Foods Project, speaks with Education Week about a bipartisan bill that would provide money for school kitchen upgrades. Source: EducationWeek |
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| May 6, 2013 |
''Pre-Ordering School Lunches Steer Kids To Healthier Meal Choices'' Jessica Donze Black, project director for Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project, is featured in Time magazine article about healthy school lunches. Source: Time Health & Family |
School Food |
| May 2, 2013 |
''Latham Renews Quest to Upgrade School Kitchens'' "Recent changes to the federal school lunch program require more fresh fruits and vegetables to be served, but many schools in Iowa and across the country lack the fridge space needed to store large quantities of fresh produce, the Republican lawmaker said." Source: Des Moines Register |
School Food |
| Apr 20, 2013 |
''State Schools Set to Implement Updated USDA Guidelines'' "The USDA is updating the existing nutritional food standards set in 1979, which will require all snack foods sold in public schools to meet new health standards." Source: New Britain Herald |
School Food |
| Apr 18, 2013 |
''Six Cent Increases Funding for School Nutrition'' "Marty Tatara has succeeded with 'Six Cent For Child' certification, which will increase federal funding for nutrition in Madison City Schools." Source: Madison County Record |
School Food |
| Apr 17, 2013 |
"Orange County Public Schools are continuing to offer up a host of different lunch options to students throughout the county, expanding their taste buds through different food choices." Source: |
School Food |
| Apr 17, 2013 |
''Lewiston Woman Sickened by Ground Beef Rallies Against Antibiotics in Meat'' A past bout of salmonella led Maine resident Danielle Wadsworth to travel to Washington, D.C. this week to argue for stronger regulations to curtail the use of antibiotics in livestock farming. She took part Wednesday in "Supermoms Against Superbugs," an initiative of the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming. Source: Bangor Daily News |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Apr 16, 2013 |
''Nashville Voices Take Concerns About Antibiotic Resistance to Washington'' Dr. Cecilia Di Pentima is in Washington, D.C., for “Supermoms against Superbugs” to push for laws to curtail the use of antibiotics in livestock farming — one of many fronts in the battle to preserve the effectiveness of the medicines. Family physicians in the South, including Tennessee, have also been identified as inadvertent purveyors of drug-resistant bacteria by prescribing too many antibiotics. Source: The Tennesseean |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Apr 15, 2013 |
''Groups Weigh in on Proposed School Snack, Vending Rules'' "High school students don't need to have access to caffeine on campus. Snacks sold at elementary and middle schools shouldn't have as many calories as those sold at high schools. And maybe schools shouldn't have vending machines or a la carte lunch lines at all." Source: Education Week |
School Food |
