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WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Secretary of Agriculture Bob
Bergland recently proposed
the most significant changes
m meal patterns for the
National School Lunch
Program since the
program’s inception in 1946.
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“These proposed regulations
represent a major step in our
efforts to help schools more
adequately meet the
nutritional needs of children
and to reduce plate waste,”
Berglandsaid.
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lunch patterns proposed
students meals that are the
most appealing and the most
acceptable to them within a
sound nutritional fra
mework, and we intend to
operate the school lunch
program as efficiently as
possible,” the Agriculture
Secretary added.
The proposed patterns
update the long-standing
type A meal pattern. They
are designed to provide
children with approximately
one-third the Recommended
Dietary Allowances (RDA)
for nutrients (except
calories).
The proposed lunch pat
terns define minimum
portions of food for children
of five age groups. The
proposed patterns reduce
the amounts of food served
to younger children among
whom studies have found
plate waste to be the
greatest. At the same time,
older students with in
creased appetites and
nutritional needs will be
offered more food. However,
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food preferences of in
dividuals and to minimize
plate waste, students age 12
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choose smaller portion sizes
of the required lunch
components.
The lunch requirements
are based on the 1974
revisions of the RDA
published by the National
Acedemy of Sciences. This
brings the lunch patterns up
to date with new knowledge
about nutritional needs, and
with changing food
preferences and con
sumption habits of children.
The propoposed new lunch
patterns:
- expand the bread
alternates to include the use
of enriched or whole-grain
rice and macaroni, and
noodle products. This avoids
situations in which both
bread and chop suey over
rice must be served at the
same meal. It also allows
flexible menu planning to
meet ethnic and cultural
food habits.
- require lunch to be
served to 1 - through 5-year
old children at two sittings
which together meet lunch
pattern requirements.
Department officials expect
this to better meet the food
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consumption habits of young
children.
- require schools to offer
students unflavored fluid
lowfat, skim or buttermilk in
addition to whole or flavored
milk. This provision keeps
the amount of fat in the lunch
at a moderate level.
- require schools to in
volve students in their school
food service program
through activities such as
menu planning, enhan
cement of the eating en
vironment, program
promotion and related
student-community support
activities.
USDA welcomes com
ments on these proposed
regulations from all in
terested parties, including
students, parents, faculty,
and community members.
Comments are due no later
than Oct. 24.
After the initial comment
period, interim regulations,
reflecting public comment,
will be issued. These are
planned to be in effect on a
pilot test basis, from Jan.
1978 through April 1978.
Schools will be permitted to
field test the new lunch
patterns under the interim
regulations, and the
Department will continue to
accept and consider public
comments on the meal
patterns during this period.
Further, USDA will hold
public hearings this fall on
all child nutrition programs,
including the new meal
patterns.
“There are a number of
areas of concern in the
school lunch program where
the Department believes
extensive public discussion
is needed before final
regulations are
promulgated,” Bergland
stated. “We have identified
several matters on which we
are especially anxious to
have comments from the
public before making a
decision.”
Among the areas iden
tified are:
1. How to determine the
appropriate meal pattern in
schools with mixed age
groupings.
2. Whether to require that
second helpings be made
available and how to ad
minister reimbursements
for such helpings.
3. How to provide the lunch
pattern in two separate meal
servings to the youngest
group of children.
Bergland noted that the
Department is also con
tinuing to study alternatives
to the Type A lunch pattern,
and is considering the
feasibility of the “nutrient
standard approach” to menu
planning. Under this ap
proach, menus are planned
to meet a predetermined
nutrient level instead of a
food pattern of specific types
and quantities of food. He
said that the Department is
especially interested in
comments on this issue.
The public, including
students and parents, is
invited to comment on both
the proposed lunch patterns
and the nutrients standard
approach to meal planning.
Written comments,
suggestions, or objections
should be sent to William 6.
Boling, Manager, Cnilo
Nutrition Programs, Food
and Nutrition Service, * T .S.
Department of Agirculffire,
Washington, D. C. 20250.
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