Education Week (12/1, Shah) reports, "This month, Congress added clauses to the agriculture appropriations bill that keep the USDA from limiting how many servings of starchy vegetables, including white potatoes, students are allowed each week," as well as "allow a small amount of tomato paste on a slice of pizza to be considered a serving of vegetables, cut back on some of the limits the USDA wanted to place on the sodium content of school meals, and require the agency to define what items are considered whole grains." USDA spokeswoman Courtney Rowe said that the final rules for breakfast and lunch "will be less ambitious because Congress bowed to food companies and specific industries instead of listening to experts on health and nutrition."
The Knoxville (TN) News Sentinel (12/1, Williams) reports, "The new nutrition regulations were based on a 2009 report by the Institute of Medicine and were backed by a number of medical and health organizations, including the American Medical Association and the American Dietetic Association."
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