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44—Lancaster Firming, Saturday, May 6, 1978
Dairy Council challenging proposed school lunch program
ROSEMONT, HI. - A
threat to the nutritional
integrity of the National
School Lunch Program has
been challenged by the
Tobacco
committee renewed
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Secretary of Agriculture Bob
Bergland has renewed the
Flue-Cured Tobacco Ad
visory Committee for two
years and approved in
creasingits size from 36 to 37
members and their alter
nates.
Another warehouse
representative will be added
to the committee, bringing
the total number of
warehouse representatives
on the committee to nine.
The committee’s mem
bership representing the
other segments of the flue
cured industry includes 20
producers and eight buyers.
According to Barbara
Lindemann Schlei, ad
ministrator of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s
Agricultural Marketing
Service (AMS) the increase
in size was made to include
representation by Pee Dee
Warehouse Association,
Mullins. S.C.
.The Flue-Cured Tobacco
Committee provides in
formation essential to the
orderly marketing of flue
cured tobacco and recom
mends opening dates and
selling schedules for the flue
cured tobacco areas, Ms.
Schlei said.
Such information is
needed, Ms. Schlei said, to
equitably assign inspectors
to all designated markets for
flue-cured tobacco. Under
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National Dairy Council.
Specifically, NDC has ob
jected to a proposed
amendment to school lunch
regulations which would
the Tobacco Inspection Act,
tobacco must be officially
inspected to be sold at
auction in designated
markets. >
The committee,
authorized by the Federal
Advisory Act, reports to the
director of AMS’ Tobacco
Division. It was officially
established in 1974 and first
renewed in 1976.
allow senior high, junior
high and' middle school
studnts the option of
choosing some of the foods
offered on the school lunch
menu, but not all.
This, in the opinion of
many nutritionists, opens
the door to selections by
students -that- -could, -for
example, substitute milk for
some other beverage. Such a
relation of the school lunch
regulations, while in
troduced as a solution to
“food waste” in the
program, would be “tan
tamount to defeating the
nutritional goals of the
program; ’ says NDC.
“We are opposed to any
amendments lhat would
permit school children to
choose a lunch thsi may not
include milk,” said NDC
President M.F. Brink,
recently in commenting on
proposed amendments to the
National School Lunch
Program regulations. Li a
letter to USDA’s Food and
Nutrition Service, Dr. Brink
said: “For USDA to allow
certain seuiorhigh asrrellas
junior high and middle
school students the option of
choosing- three of file five
(schoollunch) items -inthe
name of curbing food waste -
- is tantamount to defeating
the nutrition goals of the
program. The problem
becomes even worse if the
foods not chosen by the
students are the very ones
that supply the nutrients that
tend to be consumed at less
than recommended levels.”
In his letter, after a full
discussion of the proposed
amendments, Dr. Brink
offered these recom
mendations:
“First and foremost,
USDA should uphold the
nutritional integrity of the
meal pattern for school
Tunch. 1
“To reduce food waste,
USDA should encourage the
school foodservfce personnel
to:
—plan menus that take
into account, the students’
preferences and offer
choices wherever possible.
Student involvement in
menu planning and
evaluation of the meals
should be sought. Such in
volvement has proved to be a
major factor in the high
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degree of success of some
school lunch programs.
—maintain quality food
preparation.
—where possible, ex
periment with different
methods of serving, such as
buffet style or family style
service. Some schools have
reported reduction in plate
waste and increased student
participation in the school
lunch program by serving
buffet style. Another
school has transformed the
school lunchroom into a
learning laboratory and is
using family style service to
reduce food waste and in
crease student participation
in the program.
—reinforce the children’s
experiences in the school
lunchroom with nutrife;
education.” -
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