National Center for Health Research’s Public Comments on Simplifying Meal Service and Monitoring Requirements in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs

The recently proposed changes would drastically weaken school nutrition by creating large loopholes in school nutrition requirements. Despite claiming that the goal is to offer “greater ability to offer wholesome, nutritious, and appealing meals to students,” the result of these guidelines would be to seriously harm children’s access to healthy food options. Therefore, we strongly disagree with the proposed changes to school nutrition requirements. 

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