Governor Announces New Jersey Schools in Compliance with Nutrition Standards
Governor Jon S. Corzine today announced that 97% of New Jersey schools are in compliance with New Jersey's Model School Nutrition Policy. The Governor made the announcement while joining Health Commissioner Fred Jacobs, Agriculture Secretary Charles Kuperus and Education Commissioner Lucille Davy in addressing 1300 students from Toms River public high schools on the issues of childhood obesity and second-hand smoke.
"Government can play an important role in a child's dietary routine by providing the right options during mealtimes in public schools," said Governor Corzine. "Many students eat both breakfast and lunch at the school cafeteria, or 2/3 of their daily meals. With the prevalence of obesity and poor eating habits, it is imperative to have proper nutrition guidelines in place for food served at our schools. I commend Commissioner Jacobs, Secretary Kuperus and Commissioner Davy for their work on this issue."
Governor Corzine signed the New Jersey Model School Nutrition Policy into law in February 2007. These nutrition standards now apply to all public schools. For instance, snack and beverage items sold or served anywhere on school property during the school day, including items sold in a la carte lines, vending machines, snack bars, school stores and fundraisers must meet the standards.
To date, 777 of 798 schools are now compliant with nutrition policy standards. By the end of this month, 100% compliance is expected to be reached. According to the policy, snack foods can have no more than 8 grams of total fat per serving, with the exception of nuts and seeds, or schools cannot serve candy or any item that lists sugar, in any form, as the first ingredient. In elementary schools, the guidelines say all beverages served must either be milk, water or fruit or vegetable juices that are comprised of 100 percent fruit or vegetable juice. In middle schools and high schools, at least 60 percent of all beverages offered, other than milk and water, must be 100 percent fruit or vegetable juices.
For non-public schools, these regulations only apply if the school participates in any of the federally funded Child Nutrition Programs.
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The above says Corzine signed the Model School Nutrition Policy? I thought it was Codey?
Animal Tagging and SCHOOL LUNCHES???
Posted on 01/19/2006
Former Gov Codey was pretty busy signing many items into NJ law before Corzine stepped up this week.
One of the Amendments Codey signed into law is the Model School Nutrition Program.
http://www.state.nj.us/agriculture/PolicyQA.pdf
I became curious because it seems to be an initiative of the USDA. I always thought it was the FDA that dealt with foods and labeling.
Anyway, the School Nutrition Policy is an effort of another initiative called Healthy People 2010. The Model School Nutrition Program is the first implementations of the Healthy People 2010 Project.
The USDA, State and Local levels are presenting this as a FEDERAL program.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/otheract/hpdata2010/abouthp.htm
The CDC says it is a Non Governmental Organization.
The Goal of the Healthy People 2010 Project is to have all our health and food safety needs tracked in a National Database by 2010. The school children's lunches are the first steps.
Made me go hmmmm.
The USDA is also working on strong arming the animal producers into having all of their animals tracked in a national database too for food safety issues.
NATIONAL ANIMAL ID SYSTEM
The National Animal Identification System is being put into place “to enable 48 hour traceback of the movements of any diseased or exposed animal.”
The NAIS consists of three components:
# Premises registration
# Animal identification
# Animal tracking
Those putting this into place do not consider you the owner of your animals. Their approach to this is “We must ensure the participation requirements of the NAIS not only provide the results necessary to maintain the health of the national herd …
The government is already encouraging voluntary registration on the radio.
“The USDA…will enact regulations by early 2008, requiring stakeholders to identify their premises and animals. At that time, all animals leaving their current premises must be identified with the AIN or Group/Lot ID.
Even with public funding, there will be costs to producers. Both public and private funding will be required for the NAIS to become fully operational. The Federal government is providing the standards, national databases, and basic infrastructure.
More here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1552189/posts?page=12#12
What does School Lunches have to do with Animal Tracking?
They are both tracing back to:
Food Safety Network a Healthy People 2010 initiative
The tracking methods of health and nutrition and animal tracking are both going to be using a Nationally Interactive Database.
Livestock
http://www.optibrand.com/uploadedfiles/Animal_ID.pdf
Tracking Healthy People 2010
http://www.healthypeople.gov/Document/html/tracking/THP_PartA.htm
Both of these efforts claim to be a product of the:
Food Safety Network at the University of Guelph
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