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Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture Clayton Yeutter
estimated today that a total of
more than 5.5 billion half-pints of
milk will be served to children at
school this year through the
Federal-State child nutrition
programs.
He predicted an increase of
some 11 percent in the amount of
milk that will be served to the
children who take part in the
National School Lunch Program
and the Special Breakfast
Program.
“These Federal-State child
nutrition programs,” Assistant
Secretary Yeutter said, “provide
the means to make milk
available at school to all of
America’s 51 million school
children, in the school year now
getting under way. If children do
not have milk service in the
school they attend,” he pointed
out, “it is because local
authorities have not chosen to
utilize the programs available to
them.”
The Assistant Secretary gave
this outline of the child nutrition
programs in operation in schools
as the new school year gets under
way:
-- More than 43 million children
are this year attending schools
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School Milk Consumption
To Increase 11 Percent
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which make the National School
Lunch Program available to their
children. A serving of a half-pint
of milk must be included in every
one of the lunches that is served
under this Program. In addition,
each of the breakfasts served
under the School Breakfast
Program -- in operation in some
9,000 schools - must also include
a half-pint of milk.
- Another three million
children attend schools which
provide meal service, including
milk, which is not Federally
subsidized. These schools are
eligible to participate in the
National School Lunch Program,
but choose not to do so. USDA, the
States, and other cooperators are
encouraging these schools to
participate in the National School
Lunch Program.
- Five million children are
attending schools which do no't as
yet make any meal service
available to their children. The
Special Milk Program is
available to all of these schools
which do not yet provide a food
New Label Approval
Poultry Products Proposed
The U. S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) proposed
new regulations detailing the
step-by-step procedure for
granting approval of labels,
containers, formulas, and
methods of preparing poultry
products.
The federal poultry inspection
program requires advance ap
proval by USDA for labels,
containers, formulas, and
preparation methods for poultry
products processed under federal
inspection. According to officials
of USDA’s Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service
(APHIS), the proposed changes
are aimed at speeding up the
approval process.
The proposed regulations
would allow manufacturers to
submit labels for review to either
the central APHIS label approval
office or the APHIS inspector
assigned to their plant. In
spectors would review labels
submitted to them and have
authority to grant approval for
certain necessary changes on
previously approved labels.
Other proposed requirements
service to attending children.
Under the Special Milk Program,
a reimbursement of three cents a
half-pint is paid to participating
schools for milk purchased for
service to children, and the
schools use these subsidy
payments to reduce the price at
which the milk is sold to the
children. Again, USDA, the
States, and other cooperators are
making every effort to get the
National School Lunch Program
into these schools, so that com
plete meal including milk may be
served to the children who attend
them. But the Special Milk
Program will make milk
available to the children, until
such time as the schools join the
National School Lunch Program
and make full meal service
(including milk) available to the
children.
Child nutrition programs are
administered cooperatively by
the Food and Nutrition Service of
the U. S. Department of
Agriculture, by State educational
agencies, and by local school
authorities.
for
include processor submission of a
sketch for each proposed label to
APHIS before printing--so that it
can be checked for accuracy and
completeness--and processor
certification to APHIS that
containers comply with Food and
Drug Administration regulations.
A proposed new record-keeping
requirement would increase
USDA control over reproduction
of the official inspection mark by
label and branding device
manufacturers
Comments on the proposal
should be sent in duplicate by
November 30 to the USDA
Hearing Clerk, Washington, D. C.
20250. Anyone wishing to present
his comments orally should
contact the Labels and
Packaging Staff, APHIS, USDA,
Washington, D. C. 20250, to
arrange for presentation of his
comments before the deadline.
Written comments and records of
those presented orally will be
available for public review in the
hearing clerk’s office
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